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Table of Contents for Programming Languages: a survey

Lisps (in general)

Best practices:

Good at:

Racket

Good at:

Popularity:

Common Lisp

A committee-defined effort to standardize various MACLISP variants into one language.

retrospectives: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

Scheme

Pros:

people: Guy Steele

Clojure

Shen

PLOT