Difference Between C Language and LISP Language

C Language: C is the procedural Programming language. It was designed to be compiled using a compiler. The Language has small and fixed number of keywords like if/else, for, while,.. etc. We can use more than one assignment that may be used in one statement in this language. Functions are also used here, it can return values that can be ignored, when not needed. All data has a type but we can convert it implicitly.

 LISP Language: LISP is the second oldest high-level language. It is influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus Linked list is one of the most important data structure of this language. It was the first programming language where the structure of code is represented directly in the standard data structure. Lisp used the concept of automatic garbage collection.

Difference Between C Language and LISP Language

Let's see the difference in the sytnax structure of C and Lisp:

The following code is in C language to print the sum of two numbers.

#include <stdio.h>

// main function declaration and definition
int main()
{
    int x = 10;
    int y = 5;
    int sum = x + y;

    printf("The sum of %d and %d is %d", x, y, sum);

    return 0;
}

The sum of 10 and 5 is 15

The above code can be written in Lisp as shown:

; similar code in lisp
(defun main ()
  (let ((x 10)
        (y 5))
    (print (+ x y))))

(main)

Output

15