Common Lisp
The standardised Lisp: macros, an interactive image, CLOS objects and native compilers like SBCL. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- Common Lisp community (SBCL and other implementations)
- Created by
- Scott Fahlman, Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel, David Moon, Daniel Weinreb
- First release
- 1984
- License
- Open standard
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://common-lisp.net
- Paradigms
- Functional, Object-oriented, Procedural
- Typing
- Dynamic
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Native code
- Main implementation
- SBCL
- Concurrency
- Threads (per implementation, bordeaux-threads)
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- Quicklisp, ASDF
- Used for
- Back end, Scripting
- Specification
- ANSI INCITS 226-1994