LISP Dialects Alignment Chart

LISP Dialects Alignment Syntactical Lawful Syntactical Neutral Syntactical Chaotic Semantical Lawful Obviously Common Lisp and Scheme are LISPs Chez Scheme Version 8 User's Guide LSP Semantical Neutral Language-oriented programming is the core LISP spirit Spiritual successor of JMC LISP 2 Dynamic Scoping is LISP fundamentalism JMC didn't say that LISP has to have macro Macro + CLOS-Style OO System + GC = LISP Semantical Chaotic F-expr based macro makes REAL LISP Cons pairs are not essential for LISP JAVASCRIPT IS JUST SCHEME IN THE C SYNTAX!!! newLISP puts the fun back in LISP JS julia

A nine-panel alignment chart categorizes Lisp dialects and Lisp-adjacent languages by syntax and semantics. The joke uses role-playing alignment labels to exaggerate ideological differences among Lisp communities, while placing JavaScript as chaotic Scheme and Julia as a spiritual successor to JMC LISP 2. It is shared by programmers as an absurdly niche reaction to debates about programming language design and Lisp purity.

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