Everything about Lisp (programming language)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Lisp (programming language)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: LISP-Based Control Plane for Service Connectivity in Multi-Cluster Cloud SystemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Learning to Program in LISP1Cited 266 times
5. Go sideways: Common LispA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MaclispA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Learning to Program in LISP1

  John R. Anderson, Robert Farrell, Ron Sauers · 1984 · Cognitive Science · 266 citations

• Skill Acquisition and the LISP Tutor

  John R. Anderson, Frederick G. Conrad, Albert T. Corbett · 1989 · Cognitive Science · 223 citations

• Common Lisp Object System specification

  Daniel G. Bobrow, Linda G. DeMichiel, Richard P. Gabriel · 1988 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 194 citations

• A LISP garbage-collector for virtual-memory computer systems

  Robert R. Fenichel, Jerome C. Yochelson · 1969 · Communications of the ACM · 164 citations

• Proving Theorems about LISP Functions

  Robert S. Boyer, J. Strother Moore · 1975 · Journal of the ACM · 152 citations

• Programming in an Interactive Environment: the ``Lisp'' Experience

  Erik Sandewall · 1978 · ACM Computing Surveys · 142 citations

• A Methodology for LISP Program Construction from Examples

  Phillip D. Summers · 1977 · Journal of the ACM · 137 citations

• An industrial strength theorem prover for a logic based on Common Lisp

  M. Kaufmann, J.S. Moore · 1997 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 123 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• LISP-Based Control Plane for Service Connectivity in Multi-Cluster Cloud Systems

  Kyoungjae Sun, Jangwon Lee, Younghan Kim · 2022 · IEEE Access · 4 citations

• LISP-MM: Efficient LISP-Based Mobility Management in Software Defined Vehicular Networks

  Jie Cui, Meng Li, Haozhe Chen · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering · 4 citations

• The experience of stigma in adults who lisp

  Sarah Lockenvitz, Judith Oxley, John Tetnowski · 2022 · Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders · 4 citations

• Mapping prediction with recurrent neural networks for future LISP enabled networks

  Yue Li, Shuai Guo, Qipeng Song · 2023 · Journal of Information and Intelligence · 3 citations

• Treating a Young Child Who Stutters' Lateral Lisp: A Case Study

  Cara Singer, Ellianne Martin · 2023 · Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman · 1985
• Artificial intelligenceGeorge F. Luger, LUGER · 1992
• Algorithms in C++Robert Sedgewick · 1990
• Paradigms of Artificial IntelligencePeter Norvig · 1991
• Lisp loreHank Bromley, H. Bromley · 1986
• The little LISPerDaniel P. Friedman · 1974
• Practical Common LispPeter Seibel · 2005
• LISPPatrick Henry Winston · 1981

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• Eval In some programming languages, eval, short for evaluate, is a function which evaluates a string as though it were an expression in the language, and returns…
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• Fexpr In Lisp programming languages, a fexpr is a function whose operands are passed to it without being evaluated. When a fexpr is called, only the body of…
• CAR and CDR In computer programming, CAR (car) /kɑːr/ and CDR (cdr) (/ˈkʌdər/ or /ˈkʊdər/) are primitive operations on cons cells (or "non-atomic S-expressions") introduced…