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> Scheme looks like Lisp but isn't really Lisp Well that’s a surprising statement, i’ve heard it touted as more lispy than common lisp.
by harperlee 3y ago
> Scheme looks like Lisp but isn't really Lisp
Well that’s a surprising statement, i’ve heard it touted as more lispy than common lisp.
- jbotz 3y agoScheme is definitely a Lisp. One of its primary innovations over previous dialects of Lisp was lexical scoping, and most later Lisps adopted that, including Common Lisp.
- nerdponx 3y agoA lot of people use the name "Lisp" to mean specifically "Common Lisp".
- ur-whale 3y ago> Scheme looks like Lisp but isn't really Lisp The Lisp world is extremely confusing. I'd wager that at this time, most people in that space can't even agree on what "being a LISP" means.
- mtreis86 3y agoHaven't agreed in half a century, won't agree now, never will.
- harperlee 3y agoJavascript is lisp but clojure ain’t so!
- kazinator 3y agoI've never seen anyone say that MacCarthy's Lisp 1 and 1.5 are not Lisp. Or that MacLisp, or InterlLisp, BBN Lisp and other historic dialects are not Lisp. Or that Emacs Lisp or ANSI Common Lisp aren't. The entire disagreement is about languages that deviate from the core design patterns set out in the ancestral Lisps, some of whose adherents want them to be regarded as Lisp.