Re:Roll a Lisp in C – Evaluation
by shakna on Saturday May 07, 2022 @06:56AM
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Lambda is enough to get to Turing completeness (ta, Y-Combinator!). However, Scheme is a well-specified Lisp [0], which has few necessary elements that everything builds on top of. Common Lisp is also well-specified [1], though the hyperspec is a lot more painful to explore.
A lot of people mean Common Lisp when they say "Lisp".
One of the dividing lines of most Lisps, is whether they fall into Lisp-1, or Lisp-2 [2]. That is, do functions and variables share a namespace or not. Common Lisp is a Lisp-2, whereas Scheme is a Lisp-1.
A lot of people mean Common Lisp when they say "Lisp".
One of the dividing lines of most Lisps, is whether they fall into Lisp-1, or Lisp-2 [2]. That is, do functions and variables share a namespace or not. Common Lisp is a Lisp-2, whereas Scheme is a Lisp-1.
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/stable...
[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Front/index...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#The_function_names...