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I notice that the old-school Common Lispers tend to call their language "Lisp." I (a new-school one) always say CL or Common Lisp. I'm not sure why they do that
by delish 11y ago
I notice that the old-school Common Lispers tend to call their language "Lisp." I (a new-school one) always say CL or Common Lisp. I'm not sure why they do that. When I say "a lisp" or "lisp" I'm referring to the family of languages or some idealized lisp.
- orthecreedence 11y agoI call CL "lisp." The reason is that CL was invented to unify lisps. It did a great job. There are no other contenders in the space. Other languages in the lisp family have their own names. A language can be "a lisp" or in the "lisp family", but in my eyes Lisp is (Common) Lisp. Scheme is Scheme. Clojure is Clojure. Etc.