LISP

List processing language, one of the earliest programming language to feature a garbage collector. Popular in early AI research but is also used as a scripting language in packages such as Emacs.

Common Lisp (CL)

A dialect of LISP that adds functional programming, object-oriented and procedural features.

Scheme

A version of LISP introduced in the 1970's that cuts down the language considerably but at the same time adds some functional features.

A list of OS/2 implementations of LISP

• CLISP - Open Source - Discontinued
• ECoLisp - Open Source - Sort of current
• Kyoto Common Lisp
• MIT/GNU Scheme - Open Source - Discontinued
• newLISP - Open Source - Current
• xLISP - Open Source

Libraries

• Snappy - Compression lib. - Open Source - Current.

Foreign libraries with LISP or Scheme bindings

• LibcURL - Internet URL (WWW, FTP, etc) access (LISP + Scheme) - Open Source - Current.
• Snappy - Compression lib. - Open Source - Current.

LISP related programmer's utilities

• Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of Scheme and LISP source files - Open source - Current.

OS/2 text & programmers editors with LISP support

• Boxer - LISP syntax highlighting support built in - Commercial - Discontinued.
• jEdit - Java based - LISP and Scheme syntax highlighting built in - Current.
• Lugaru Epsilon - LISP syntax highlighting and autoindent available as a seperate download. - Commercial.

A list of DOS implementations of LISP

• ECoLisp - Open Source - Sort of current
• PC-LISP 3.0 - Shareware
• RefLisp - Open source - Discontinued

DOS text & programmers editors with LISP support

• Boxer - LISP syntax highlighting support built in - Commercial - Discontinued.

A list of LISP implementations that run under WinOS/2

• Apteryx Lisp 1.04 - shareware

A list of LISP implementations that run under Java

• GNU Kawa Scheme

Related languages

• Clojure - Functional language that uses LISP syntax.

Publications

• [Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers] - Primarily Lisp related but a few unrelated papers in-between.