A concise tutorial on Lisp

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A concise tutorial on Lisp

Finishing people: Chaobs

E-mail: chaobs@outlook.com

Blog: www.cnblogs.com/Chaobs

Data main Source: http://www.yiibai.com/lisp/

Version: 0.1.0

Preface

Why the Lisp language is so advanced.

(Excerpt from the "Hacker and Painter" translation)

Translator Original: Http://www.ruanyifeng.com/blog/2010/10/why_lisp_is_superior.html

One

If we put the popular programming languages in this order: Java, Perl, Python, Ruby. You will find that the more the language in the back, the more like Lisp.

Python mimics Lisp and even features that many Lisp hackers think are part of the design error. As for Ruby, if you go back to 1975, you claim that it is a Lisp dialect and no one will oppose it.

The programming language is now developing, but just catching up with the 1958 Lisp language level.

Two

In 1958, John McCarthy designed the Lisp language. I think the current most trendy programming language is just the idea of his 1958.

How is that possible? The development of computer technology is not changing rapidly. The technology of the 1958, how can surpass today's level.

Let me tell you why.

This is because John McCarthy was not intended to design Lisp as a programming language, at least not in our present sense. His intention was only to make a theoretical calculation and to define Turing in a more concise way.

So why the programming language of the 50 's has not gone out of fashion yet. Simply put, because this language is not a technology in nature, but mathematics. Maths is not out of date. You should not associate the Lisp language with the hardware of the 50 's, but rather compare it with the fast sort (Quicksort) algorithm. This algorithm was proposed in 1960 and is still the fastest universal sorting method.

Three

The Fortran language was also in the 50 's, and has been used so far. It represents a completely different direction of language design. Lisp was inadvertently developed from pure theory to programming language, and Fortran was designed as a programming language from the beginning. Today, however, we regard Lisp as a high-level language, and Fortran as a fairly low-grade language.

In the 1956, when Fortran was first born, it was called Fortran I, which differs greatly from today's Fortran language. Fortran I