what is LIsp?

[malaraan]

What is Lisp programme based on?

Is it easy to study?

[Unhelpful]

A really cruel word for people with one.

 

It's not just quite a programming language.... It's a family of them. It isn't really based on anything, it's just LISP. It's really fucking old.

[colonel_mortis]

LISP is a very old programming language (1958), and isn't particularly useful these days unless you want to write scripts for the emacs editor. In LISP, pretty much everything is represented by a list, including the program itself, which means you end up with lots of parenthesis to keep track of to delimit the nested lists.

If you're looking for a completely different language to learn to give a slightly different perspective on things, there's no reason why not, but if you want to learn it as a useful language, or as one of your first few languages, I would suggest that you go for something more widely used, which will help you get the hang of the modern concepts, such as Java, C++, javascript, python, etc.

[Unhelpful]

3 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

unless you want to write scripts for the emacs editor

I.E. you're the unicorn combination of sadism and masochism. 

[bowrilla]

Even Fortran would be a better choice considering NASA's dire need of Fortran Devs for their old Voyager probes.