Explore Lisp through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like enunciate or articulate. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Lisp meaning
The act or a habit of lisping.
Synonyms of Lisp
Using Lisp
- The main meaning on this page is: The act or a habit of lisping.
- Useful related words include: speech disorder, enunciate, sound out, enounce.
- In the example corpus, lisp often appears in combinations such as: common lisp, in lisp, the lisp.
Context around Lisp
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lisp
- In this selection, "lisp" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, common, emacs, machine, machine, machines and programs stand out and add context to how "lisp" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2015 corman lisp has been and 32 bit lisp microprocessor was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lisp" sits close to words such as authoritative, bayer and bethel, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lisp
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Lisp Machine Manual describes the Lisp Machine Lisp language in detail. (12 words)
Other events include the European Common Lisp Meeting, the European Lisp Symposium and an International Lisp Conference. (17 words)
However, unlike C macros, the macros are Lisp functions and so can exploit the full power of Lisp. (18 words)
For the Explorer a special 32-bit LISP microprocessor was developed, which was used in the Explorer II and the TI MicroExplorer (a LISP Machine on a NuBus board for the Apple Macintosh ). (33 words)
Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp—such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp—used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers. (31 words)
Ablex Publishing Corporation USA, 1988, Chapter 3, An Evaluation of Expert System Development Tools Technical overview Initially the Lisp Machines were designed as personal workstations for software development in Lisp. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
With the appearance of Common Lisp, Common Lisp was supported on the Lisp Machines and some system software was ported to Common Lisp or later written in Common Lisp.
Common Lisp is sometimes termed a Lisp-2 and Scheme a Lisp-1, referring to CL's use of separate namespaces for functions and variables.
It is also possible to embed ECL in programs, and C code into Common Lisp programs. ; GNU Common Lisp (GCL) : The GNU Project's Lisp compiler.
Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp—such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp—used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers.
Other events include the European Common Lisp Meeting, the European Lisp Symposium and an International Lisp Conference.
The Lisp Machine Manual describes the Lisp Machine Lisp language in detail.
The result was a working Lisp interpreter which could be used to run Lisp programs, or more properly, "evaluate Lisp expressions".
When the memory and processing power of the PDP-10 were exceeded, the Lisp Machine was invented: Lisp Machine Lisp is the direct descendant of Maclisp.
Ablex Publishing Corporation USA, 1988, Chapter 3, An Evaluation of Expert System Development Tools Technical overview Initially the Lisp Machines were designed as personal workstations for software development in Lisp.
Allegro CL provides an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (for Windows and Linux) and extensive capabilities for application delivery. ; Liquid Common Lisp: formerly called Lucid Common Lisp.
All oft-seen Lisp dialects have imperative-style iteration constructs, from Scheme's do loop to Common Lisp 's complex loop expressions.
As in almost all other Lisp dialects, lists in Common Lisp are composed of conses, sometimes called cons cells or pairs.
Because conses and lists are so universal in Lisp systems, it is a common misconception that they are Lisp's only data structures.
Common Lisp has a large language standard including many built-in data types, functions, macros and other language elements, as well as an object system ( Common Lisp Object System ).
Common Lisp is extensible through standard features such as Lisp macros (code transformations) and reader macros (input parsers for characters).
Emacs Lisp is also referred to as Elisp, although there is also an older, unrelated Lisp dialect with that name.
For the Explorer a special 32-bit LISP microprocessor was developed, which was used in the Explorer II and the TI MicroExplorer (a LISP Machine on a NuBus board for the Apple Macintosh ).
However, rendering of web pages isn't done in Emacs Lisp ; only final display is handled in Emacs Lisp with the rendering done by the w3m application.
However, unlike C macros, the macros are Lisp functions and so can exploit the full power of Lisp.
In January 2015 Corman Lisp has been published under MIT license. citation ; Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL) : ECL includes a bytecode interpreter and compiler.
Common combinations with lisp
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- common lisp 84×
- in lisp 19×
- the lisp 15×
- lisp is 15×
- emacs lisp 12×
- lisp machines 11×
- lisp machine 11×
- of lisp 10×
- lisp and 8×
- lisp was 7×