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Is Picolisp a Lisp? Is Newlisp a Lisp? Is Emacs Lisp a Lisp? Maybe it's because I first learned programming in the 1980s in BASIC, but I'm pretty used to the id
by jhbadger 10y ago
Is Picolisp a Lisp? Is Newlisp a Lisp? Is Emacs Lisp a Lisp?
Maybe it's because I first learned programming in the 1980s in BASIC, but I'm pretty used to the idea of programming languages having dialects. Apple ][s, Commodore 64s, and Atari 800s all supposedly were programmable in BASIC, but it didn't mean you could take a program written on one and expect to run it without changes on another.
- icc97 10y agoSurely that's the whole point - it's a dialect, so it has the same core but not 100% so you have to translate some of it to get to the other. The dialects of Dutch in Belgium contain completely different words and phrases - but the core is still Dutch. But for large parts of the speech they are recognisably similar. So I'd say yes all the lisps you mentioned are dialects of Lisp. You can't run one directly in the other, but they are reconisably similar programming constructs.
- icc97 10y agoSorry - I think I was just proving your point...