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Racket isn't a Lisp. All of the Lisps have "Lisp" in their name, e.g MacLisp, Common Lisp, ZetaLisp, Interlisp, EuLisp, Elisp, etc. Look at the conversation be
by fsck--off 13y ago
Racket isn't a Lisp. All of the Lisps have "Lisp" in their name, e.g MacLisp, Common Lisp, ZetaLisp, Interlisp, EuLisp, Elisp, etc.
Look at the conversation between kragen and lispm here [1].
Of course you can almost always informally call various Scheme dialects and Clojure "Lisps" (I do it all the time) because they draw very heavily from Lisps.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068732
- 6cxs2hd6 13y agoI said lisp not Lisp. I think it's meaningful to refer to things like Scheme, Racket, Arc, Clojure, Dylan, Honu et al as lowercase lisps. For example I believe those tick off all 9 items on pg's list: http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html Disclaimer for language lawyers: Using lowercase lisp is not intended to infringe Lisp (R), a registered trademark of Sole Arbiter of What's a Lisp Corporation. ;)