LISP : Practice Questions and Answers

LISP gives the same output for both the cases. In fact, LISP always gives output in upper case letters.

Defstruct creates a constructor procedure. Defstruct creates reader procedures for getting things out of an instance fields.

Structure types enables storage in procedurally indexed places.

The defstruct form is evaluated is a combination of make- with structure type's name.

Defstruct is the primitive that creates new structure types.

Lisp has elaborate apparatus for automatically creating new data types and this is called as structure types.

LISP not only facilitates procedure abstraction; but it facilitates data abstraction also.

Common Lisp Object System is included in Common lisp to avail the feature of object oriented programming.

The four types of arguments available are interaction argument, environment argument, evolution argument and uniformity argument.

Uniformity argument is used in lisp, So procedure and lisp data have same form.

Lisp is used to write the applications for all of the given above.

Lisp is an important language even when computer intelligence is not involved.

A symbol manipulation program uses symbolic expressions to work with data and procedures.

Atoms and list collectively are called symbolic expressions or more succinctly expressions.

Atoms are considered to be fundamental units of LISP. From atoms we can form lists, etc.

LISP is a programming language that takes it name from List Processing.

To evaluate forms, break is used which will stops evaluation and we can evaluate forms.

Trace causes procedures to print their arguments and values.

Procedures should report on what is going on when they encounter unexpected situations.

Put-on will succeed only if all its sub-procedures succeed.