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A fundamental distinction between Lisp and other languages is that in Lisp, the textual representation of a program is simply a human-readable description of the same internal data structures (linked lists, symbols, number, characters, etc.) as would be used by the underlying Lisp system. Lisp uses this to implement a very powerful macro system.
The programming language Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language with direct descendants and closely related dialects still in widespread use today. The language Fortran is older by one year. [1] [2] Lisp, like Fortran, has changed a lot since its early days, and many dialects have existed over its history.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game site warns against over-generalizing from benchmark data, but contains a large number of micro-benchmarks of reader-contributed code snippets, with an interface that generates various charts and tables comparing specific programming languages and types of tests.
Wolfram Language: No No Static Yes Yes Yes No Yes 1988 Kotlin: No Lazy delegation [78] and Sequence [79] Static Yes No Yes No Yes 2011 Swift: No No Static Yes Yes Yes No Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting, which differs from tracing garbage collection but is designed to provide similar benefits with better performance. 2014 Julia: No No ...
Like programs in many other programming languages, Common Lisp programs make use of names to refer to variables, functions, and many other kinds of entities. Named references are subject to scope. The association between a name and the entity which the name refers to is called a binding.
Some languages define a special character as a terminator while some, called line-oriented, rely on the newline. Typically, a line-oriented language includes a line continuation feature whereas other languages have no need for line continuation since newline is treated like other whitespace. Some line-oriented languages provide a separator for ...
Other platforms Editor Debugger GUI builder Profiler Browsers Allegro Common Lisp: Proprietary: Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX: Yes Yes Yes Yes Class browser, Systems, Definitions LispWorks: Proprietary: Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris: Yes Yes Yes Yes Class browser, Functions, Errors, Processes, Symbols, Systems SLIME
Alef – concurrent language with threads and message passing, used for systems programming in early versions of Plan 9 from Bell Labs; Ateji PX – an extension of the Java language for parallelism; Ballerina – a language designed for implementing and orchestrating micro-services. Provides a message based parallel-first concurrency model.