What Lisp compilers are available?
• Emacs Lisp. • Common LISP, defined by American National Standard for Information Technology: programming language — Common LISP: ANSI X3.226-1994, and described in more than 60 books. • Scheme, a much-simpler Lisp dialect, defined by Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 33(9) 26–76, September 1998, and in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation 11(1), 7–105, August 1998), and IEEE Std 1178-1990, IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language. The abstract of the report says “Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme.” Emacs Lisp is most widely available, since it is part
