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PCL

Practical Common Lisp

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Racket Lang Landing Page
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Racket Lang

Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a modern programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family, suitable...
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Oversimplifying, there are three big variants: Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure. Each of them has a lot of somewhat similar implementations: * Clojure: A lot of support for immutable data. It runs in the JVM so you will have a lot of the libraries you are use to. Probably the best option for you. https://clojure.org/ * Scheme, in particular Racket: Mostly functional, and in particular Racket has a lot of support to make your own variant. This is the option https://racket-lang.org/ * Common Lisp: I heard a lot of good things about SBCL, in particular to add anotations to make the code faster https://www.sbcl.org/ > <i>why this language is so special</i> Macros, everyone use macros, too many at the beginning, but a few where they are really necessary later. <pre><code> #lang racket.

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Clojure Landing Page
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Clojure

Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
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Oversimplifying, there are three big variants: Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure. Each of them has a lot of somewhat similar implementations: * Clojure: A lot of support for immutable data. It runs in the JVM so you will have a lot of the libraries you are use to. Probably the best option for you. https://clojure.org/ * Scheme, in particular Racket: Mostly functional, and in particular Racket has a lot of support to make your own variant. This is the option https://racket-lang.org/ * Common Lisp: I heard a lot of good things about SBCL, in particular to add anotations to make the code faster https://www.sbcl.org/ > <i>why this language is so special</i> Macros, everyone use macros, too many at the beginning, but a few where they are really necessary later. <pre><code> #lang racket.

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