Comment 24 for bug 1325571

So you are interested in Lisp ?

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Lisp has in its programming commands something

called a "lamda" ( a nameless _function_).

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So the _greek_letter_ lambda is often the featured

graphic on a number of software packages.

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Early on, Lisp forked into two principal divisions:

Common Lisp and Scheme

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Scheme has then forked into such names as:

Gambit, Guile, and Clojure

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And so my story brings me to . . .

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guile(1) - Linux man page
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Name

guile - a Scheme interpreter

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Synopsis

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guile [-q] [-ds] [--help] [--version] [--emacs] [--debug]
[-l FILE] [-e FUNCTION] [] [-c EXPR] [-s SCRIPT] [--]
Description

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GNU Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming
language. It implements R5RS, providing additional features
necessary for real-world use. It is extremely simple to embed
guile into a C program, calling C from Scheme and Scheme
from C. Guile's design makes it very suitable for use as an
"extension" or "glue" language, but it also works well as a
stand-alone scheme development environment.

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The guile executable itself provides a stand-alone interpreter
for scheme programs, for either interactive use or executing
scripts.

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This manpage provides only brief instruction in invoking guile
from the command line. Please consult the guile info
documentation (type info guile at a command prompt) for
more information. There is also a tutorial (info guile-tut)
available.

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The story gets more interesting when we see where

guile is available . . .

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Ubuntu Manpage: guile - a Scheme interpreter
manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man1/guile.1.html

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So in addition to writing scripts in ash, bash, awk, and sed,

your system may already be ready for you to write scripts

in guile <-- scheme <-- lisp .

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Now, are you really, really _certain_ that you want to learn lisp ? ? ? ! ! ! ! !