List of Lisp-family programming languages

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Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language which direct descendants and closely related dialects are still in widespread use today; only Fortran is older, by one year.[1][2] Like Fortran, Lisp has changed a greatly since its early days, and many dialects have existed over its history. Today, the most widely known general-purpose Lisp dialects are Common Lisp and Scheme.

Language Year begun Created by (at) Comments References
ACL2 1990 Robert Boyer,
J Moore,
Matt Kaufmann
A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp consists of a programming language, an extensible theory in a first-order logic, and a mechanical theorem prover [3]
Arc 2008 Paul Graham Dialect of Lisp developed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris [4]
AutoLISP 1986 David Betz Built to include and use with the full version of AutoCAD and its derivatives [5]
BBN LISP 1966 BBN Based on L. Peter Deutsch's implementation of Lisp for PDP-1, which was developed from 1960 to 1964; in time language was expanded until it became its own separate dialect in 1966; later renamed Interlisp [6]
SKILL 1990 Cadence Design Systems Used as a scripting language and PCell description language used in many EDA software suites by Cadence [7]
Clojure 2007 Rich Hickey Lisp dialect, emphasizes functional programming; runs on Java virtual machine, Common Language Runtime, and JavaScript engines; like other Lisps, treats code as data and has a macro system [8]
ANSI Common Lisp 1994 ANSI X3J13 committee Enhancement and standardization[9] of Common Lisp, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994; to the features of Common Lisp, it adds[10] the loop macro, and the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) for providing object-oriented programming paradigm with multi-methods, multiple-dispatch and method combinations; runs on many platforms: Unix, Linux, macOS, Windows, JVM, JavaScript, Unix/C, LLVM/C++, Android, iOS [11]
Common Lisp 1984 Dialect of Lisp, first standardized in the "Common Lisp, The Language" book by Guy L. Steele,[9] developed as a standardized and improved successor of Maclisp; statically and dynamically scoped; strongly-typed, allows (optional) type declarations;[12] separate namespaces for functions versus data variables, a trait often named "Lisp-2";[9] object-oriented programming is possible via libraries such as Flavors, CommonLOOPS, and later CLOS; treats code as data and has a macro system; The reader is extensible via reader macros[12] [11]
Dylan 1992 Apple Computer Mostly based on Scheme and Common Lisp, was designed as system and application programming language by Apple; first used to write an operating system and applications for internal prototypes of the later released Apple Newton computer; first official version of Apple Dylan also had s-expression based syntax; Apple collaborated with partners to develop this language
Emacs Lisp 1976 Richard Stallman Also termed Elisp, used by GNU Emacs and XEmacs text editors to implement most editing functions built into Emacs [13]
EuLisp 1990 Statically and dynamically scoped Lisp dialect developed by a loose formation of industrial and academic Lisp users and developers across Europe; the standardizers intended to create a new Lisp "less encumbered by the past" (compared to Common Lisp), and not so minimalist as Scheme, and to integrate the object-oriented programming paradigm well [14]
Franz Lisp 1970s Richard Fateman Written at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman, based largely on Maclisp and distributed with the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) for the Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) VAX [15]
Game Oriented Assembly Lisp 2000s Andy Gavin Video game programming language developed by Andy Gavin and the Jak and Daxter team at Naughty Dog; written using Allegro Common Lisp; used in developing the full game series [16]
Interlisp 1967 BBN Programming environment built around a version of Lisp language; development began in 1967 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts as BBN LISP, which ran on PDP-10 machines running the TENEX operating system; when Danny Bobrow, Warren Teitelman, and Ronald Kaplan moved from BBN to Xerox PARC, it was renamed Interlisp [17]
ISLISP 1997 WG16 Small core language to help bridge the gap between differing Lisp dialects [18]
Le Lisp 1981 INRIA Designed by Jérôme Chailloux, Emmanuel St. James, INRIA [19][20][21]
Lisp Machine Lisp 1984 Sometimes named Zetalisp, is a direct descendant of Maclisp; was developed in the mid to late 1970s as the systems programming language for the MIT Lisp machines [22]
Maclisp 1960s Project MAC Originated at MIT's Project MAC in late 1960s; based on Lisp 1.5; Richard Greenblatt was main developer of original codebase for the PDP-6;[23] Jon L. White was responsible for later maintenance and development [23]
MultiLisp 1980s Robert H. Halstead Functional programming language and dialect of Scheme, extended with constructs for parallel programming, execution, and shared memory; also had some unusual garbage collection and task scheduling algorithms [24]
NIL 1970s MIT 32-bit Lisp implementation developed at MIT; intended to be the successor to Maclisp; NIL stood for "New Implementation of LISP", and was in part a response to DECs VAX computer [25][26]
OpenLisp 1988 Christian Jullien ISLISP compatible language with many Common Lisp extensions; runs on most modern operating systems [27]
Owl Lisp 2012 Aki Helin Pure functional dialect of Scheme; based on applicable subset of the R7RS standard; has been extended mainly with threads and the data structures needed for purely functional operation [28]
PicoLisp 1988 Alexander Burger Open-source Lisp dialect; runs on Linux and other POSIX-compliant systems; most prominent features are simplicity and minimalism [29]
Portable Standard Lisp 1980 University of Utah Tail-recursive dynamically bound Lisp dialect inspired by its predecessor, Standard Lisp and the Portable Lisp Compiler; it implements the Reduce computer algebra system
Racket 1994 PLT Inc. General purpose, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp-Scheme family; one of its design goals is to serve as a platform for language creation, design, and implementation; it is used in many contexts such as scripting, general-purpose programming, computer science education, and research [30][31]
Scheme 1970 Guy L. Steele,
Gerald Sussman
Functional programming language with a minimalist design philosophy specifying a small standard core with powerful tools for language extension [32]
T 1984 Jonathan A. Rees
Norman I. Adams
Dialect of Scheme developed in the early 1980s by Jonathan A. Rees, Kent M. Pitman, and Norman I. Adams of Yale University as an experiment in language design and implementation [33]
TXR 2009 Kaz Kylheku Consists of a Lisp dialect (TXR Lisp) and a pattern language for processing text (TXR Pattern Language) [34]

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  2. ^ "Conclusions". Archived from the original on 2014-04-03. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
  3. ^ "ACL2 Annotated Bibliography".
  4. ^ Graham, Paul. "Arc FAQ". Retrieved 2016-03-18.
  5. ^ "AutoLISP". Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  6. ^ "BBN-LISP". Interlisp family. Software Preservation Group. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  7. ^ Barnes, T.J. (1990). "SKILL: a CAD system extension language". Design Automation Conference, 1990. Proceedings., 27th ACM/IEEE. DAC'90. doi:10.1109/DAC.1990.114865.
  8. ^ "Clojure". Clojure.org. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
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  10. ^ "Common Lisp, The Language".
  11. ^ a b "CLHS: About the Common Lisp HyperSpec".
  12. ^ a b "Common Lisp, The Language: Type declarations".
  13. ^ "My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs". GNU. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  14. ^ "An Overview of EuLisp" (PDF). www.softwarepreservation.org. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  15. ^ Gabriel, Richard P (May 1985). Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (PDF). MIT Press; Computer Systems Series. ISBN 0-262-07093-6. LCCN 85-15161.
  16. ^ "[Sweng-gamedev] Higher Level Languages (Was: Next Gen Multiplatform Load Balancing)". Archived from the original on 12 April 2007.
  17. ^ Teitelman, Warren (April 1972), "Do What I Mean", Computers and Automation: 8–11.
  18. ^ "Programming Language ISLISP". Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  19. ^ Chailloux, Jérôme (1983). "LE LISP 80 version 12" (PDF). INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  20. ^ Chailloux, J.; Devin, M.; Hullot, J.M. (1984). "Le_Lisp,a portable and efficient Lisp system" (PDF). INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  21. ^ Chailloux, Jérôme (November 2001). Le_Lisp de l'INRIA: Le Manuel de référence. Version 14. Rocquencourt France: INRIA. p. 190.
  22. ^ "Lisp Machine Manual" (PDF). MIT. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  23. ^ a b Levy, Steven (1984). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-19195-2.
  24. ^ Halstead, R. H. "A Language for Concurrent Symbolic Computation". Retrieved 2006-10-12.
  25. ^ Gabriel, Richard P (May 1985). Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (PDF). MIT Press; Computer Systems Series. ISBN 978-0-262-07093-5. LCCN 85015161.
  26. ^ Steele, Guy L. Jr.; Gabriel, Richard P. "The evolution of Lisp" (PDF). Retrieved 2006-10-12.
  27. ^ "Eligis: OpenLisp, ISLISP, ISO Lisp". Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  28. ^ "Owl Lisp". Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  29. ^ Burger, Alexander. "Internal structures". software-lab.de. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  30. ^ "Welcome to Racket". Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  31. ^ "Dialects of Racket and Scheme". Retrieved 2011-08-15.
  32. ^ Common LISP: The Language, 2nd Ed., Guy L. Steele Jr. Digital Press; 1981. ISBN 978-1-55558-041-4. "Common Lisp is a new dialect of Lisp, a successor to MacLisp, influenced strongly by ZetaLisp and to some extent by Scheme and InterLisp."
  33. ^ "The T Project". Jonathan Rees. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  34. ^ "TXR Language". Kaz Kylheku. Retrieved 31 August 2017.