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Common Lisp

Functional Language

Common Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard document, developed to standardize and extend the many divergent variants of Lisp that preceded it, including Maclisp, Zetalisp, Franz Lisp, and Scheme. Common Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm language supporting a combination of procedural, functional and object-oriented programming, with the Common Lisp Object System providing its object system.

Facts
First Released
1984 1
Paradigm
Multi paradigm: procedural, functional, object oriented 2
Significance
Extensible through Lisp macros and reader macros that let programmers transform the language itself. 2
Classification
Typing Discipline
Dynamically Typed 1
Typing Discipline
Strongly Typed 1
FAQs

How does Emacs Lisp differ from Common Lisp?

Emacs Lisp is far more minimal than Common Lisp; CL-Lib borrows only part of it.

Emacs Lisp is a much smaller language. The GNU Emacs manual calls Common Lisp a huge language whose systems tend to be massive and complex, and describes Emacs Lisp as rather minimalist by contrast. Emacs users can borrow many Common Lisp functions and control structures through the CL-Lib package, but it is not a complete implementation of Common Lisp. It leaves out features such as the Common Lisp Object System, Common Lisp streams, multiple return values, case-insensitive symbols and complex numbers.
Connections

Follows Typing Discipline

Dynamic Typing, Concepts
Strong Typing, Concepts

In Field

Programming Language Theory, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Common Lisp

Influenced

AspectJ, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: AspectJ
Clojure, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: Clojure
Dylan (programming language), Programming Languages

Dylan's object system is based on CLOS, Common Lisp's object system.

Source Wikidata: Dylan
Emacs Lisp, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: Emacs Lisp
R, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: R

Influenced By

Lisp, Programming Languages

General knowledge, not independently re-fetched: Common Lisp (ANSI standard, 1984) unified and standardized several earlier Lisp dialects.

Invented By

Richard P. Gabriel, Pioneers
Source Wikidata: Common Lisp
Scott Fahlman, Pioneers
Source Wikidata: Common Lisp
Sources
1. Wikidata: Common Lisp
  • Wikidata Q849146, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q849146 P571 (inception)
  • Wikidata Q849146 P7078 (typing discipline)
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2. Wikipedia: Common Lisp
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox: released
    1984, 1994 for ANSI Common Lisp
  • Infobox: Paradigm
    Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, meta, reflective, generic
  • Article body, extensibility discussion
    Common Lisp is extensible through standard features such as Lisp macros (code transformations) and reader macros (input parsers for characters).
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
    Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S2018) (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)).
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Wikidata: AspectJ
Influenced: AspectJView the Source
Wikidata: Dylan
Influenced: Dylan (programming language)View the Source
Wikidata: R
Influenced: RView the Source
Wikipedia: Lisp (programming language)
Wikimedia FoundationIn Group: Lisp Dialects, lead names Common Lisp among the best-known general-purpose Lisp dialects todayView the Source
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