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by miggol
868 days ago
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For those of us who like the braces: Lisp comes from List Processor. Scheme was first called Schemer, which itself evolved out of the Planner language developed by Carl Hewitt at MIT. Schemer was shortened to Scheme to fit the ITS filesystem's six character filename limit (!) on the PDP-10. Racket is a kind of Scheme. (I like this one) Guile comes from Guy L. Steele, one of the initial Scheme developers. The other being Gerald Jay Sussman. |
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Gambit: Another kind of Scheme.
SBCL: Steel Bank Common Lisp, forked from CMU Common Lisp, CMU being the university named after the founder of a steel factory and a pair of bankers.
Maclisp: Created for MIT's project MAC (the Project on Mathematics and Computation).
Franz Lisp: A pun on the composer Franz Liszt.