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pharmakom | 2 years ago

How would they define lisp?

To me Lisp means programs in list syntax with prefix notation.

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lispm|2 years ago

Typically a programming language (& family) is a bit more than token syntax. You could write any programming language in prefix notation.

C is more than foo{bar}.

A programming language has dimensions like: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, implementations, standards, practice, tools, social/community, libraries, code, ...