Meanings
lisps1
- pluralplural of lisp
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of lisp
Lisps2
- pluralplural of Lisp
When I talk about Lisp, the advice will apply across all the major Lisps (including Clojure, Scheme, and Common Lisp).
2014 August 26, Colin Jones, Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, →OCLC2 more examples
Indeed, a few dialects of Lisp make it an error to call car and cdr on nil. Most Lisps behave like Emacs Lisp in this regard […]
1997, Bob Glickstein, Writing GNU Emacs Extensions: Editor Customizations and Creations with Lisp (In a Nutshell Series), "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85Lisps have been called functional programming languages, but Clojure embraces that more deeply than do Common Lisp or Scheme.
2017 July 20, Michael Swaine, “An Interview with Rich Hickey”, in Michael Swaine, editor, Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology: Exploring Clojure, Elixir, Haskell, Scala, and Swift, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, →OCLC
LISPs3
- pluralplural of LISP
For compatibility with older LISPs, all symbols have property lists, with property names and values arranged in even-odd pairs.
1991, Peter M. Kogge, The Architecture of Symbolic Computers (McGraw-Hill series in supercomputing and artificial intelligence), McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 266
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