Lisp (programming language)

Quality:

Lisp - functional programming language based on the lambda calculus. This programming language is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 20^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Lisp (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 80.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 89 references and 28 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 20^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 25^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article “Lisp (programming language)” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lisp (programming language)”, its content was written by 650 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2418 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lisp is on the 20^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 971 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7394 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #339 in September 2002
• Global: #336 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8771 in October 2011
• Global: #8758 in October 2011

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) LISP		81.7573
2	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		80.118
3	Polish (pl) Lisp		48.8318
4	Latin (la) Lisp		42.7906
5	Russian (ru) Лисп		42.6308
6	Catalan (ca) Lisp		34.5269
7	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		32.599
8	German (de) Lisp		32.3513
9	Spanish (es) Lisp		29.4659
10	Hebrew (he) Lisp		28.5721

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		8 955 483
2	Russian (ru) Лисп		1 180 233
3	Japanese (ja) LISP		1 010 361
4	Spanish (es) Lisp		772 587
5	German (de) Lisp		735 938
6	French (fr) Lisp		538 635
7	Chinese (zh) LISP		478 188
8	Polish (pl) Lisp		349 194
9	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		339 742
10	Italian (it) Lisp		242 065

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		24 925
2	Russian (ru) Лисп		2 382
3	Japanese (ja) LISP		1 862
4	German (de) Lisp		1 469
5	Spanish (es) Lisp		1 468
6	French (fr) Lisp		1 197
7	Chinese (zh) LISP		1 106
8	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		736
9	Italian (it) Lisp		649
10	Simple English (simple) Lisp (programming language)		610

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		650
2	German (de) Lisp		184
3	French (fr) Lisp		163
4	Russian (ru) Лисп		136
5	Italian (it) Lisp		106
6	Japanese (ja) LISP		91
7	Polish (pl) Lisp		85
8	Spanish (es) Lisp		81
9	Dutch (nl) Lisp (programmeertaal)		74
10	Chinese (zh) LISP		71

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Lisp		5
2	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		5
3	French (fr) Lisp		1
4	Galician (gl) Lisp		1
5	Japanese (ja) LISP		1
6	Latin (la) Lisp		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Lisp		1
8	Chinese (zh) LISP		1
9	Arabic (ar) ليسب		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Lisp		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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