Lisp (programming language)

Quality:

Lisp - functional programming language based on the lambda calculus. This programming language is the 24^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 19^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Lisp (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 79 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 83 references and 27 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 19^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 24^th most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "Lisp (programming language)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Lisp (programming language)", its content was written by 633 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2355 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lisp is on the 19^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 24^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 970 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7322 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #338 in September 2002
• Global: #266 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8772 in October 2011
• Global: #8770 in October 2011

There are 49 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 August 1, 2024 (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		81.8606
2	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		78.9886
3	Polish (pl) Lisp		48.4165
4	Latin (la) Lisp		42.9168
5	Russian (ru) Лисп		42.6381
6	Catalan (ca) Lisp		34.6344
7	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		32.4584
8	Spanish (es) Lisp		30.3449
9	Hebrew (he) Lisp		28.8876
10	Hungarian (hu) Lisp (programozási nyelv)		27.4226

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		8 654 708
2	Russian (ru) Лисп		1 144 075
3	Japanese (ja) LISP		986 806
4	Spanish (es) Lisp		755 137
5	German (de) Lisp		716 983
6	French (fr) Lisp		519 370
7	Chinese (zh) LISP		458 681
8	Polish (pl) Lisp		341 909
9	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		331 946
10	Italian (it) Lisp		233 855

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)		26 544
2	Russian (ru) Лисп		2 674
3	Chinese (zh) LISP		2 545
4	Japanese (ja) LISP		2 218
5	German (de) Lisp		1 658
6	French (fr) Lisp		1 291
7	Spanish (es) Lisp		1 170
8	Italian (it) Lisp		672
9	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		639
10	Polish (pl) Lisp		569

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)		633
2	German (de) Lisp		178
3	French (fr) Lisp		157
4	Russian (ru) Лисп		135
5	Italian (it) Lisp		106
6	Japanese (ja) LISP		89
7	Polish (pl) Lisp		81
8	Spanish (es) Lisp		77
9	Dutch (nl) Lisp (programmeertaal)		73
10	Chinese (zh) LISP		70

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	Dutch (nl) Lisp (programmeertaal)		4
2	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		2
3	Arabic (ar) ليسب		1
4	Italian (it) Lisp		1
5	Japanese (ja) LISP		1
6	Russian (ru) Лисп		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Lisp		0
8	Belarusian (be) Лісп		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Lisp (език за програмиране)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Lisp		0

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

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