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Lisp (List Processing Language)

Lecture 2

6th March 2008

  • Lisp is made up of "cons" or construction blocks.
    • Each cons holds two elements e.g. a number and a link to another cons.
  • Source code in lisp is treated as a list.
    • Is expanded by the compiler repeatedly to process blocks
  • Symbols