Lisp (programming language)

Quality:

Lisp - functional programming language based on the lambda calculus. This programming language is the 26^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 21^st most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Lisp (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 79.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 21^st most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 26^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Lisp (programming language)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lisp (programming language)”, its content was written by 661 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2421 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lisp is on the 21^st place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 26^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 956 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7306 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #339 in September 2002
• Global: #347 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8845 in October 2011
• Global: #8862 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, 2026 (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		81.7643
2	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		79.9196
3	Polish (pl) Lisp		53.2087
4	Latin (la) Lisp		42.9825
5	Russian (ru) Лисп		42.6488
6	Catalan (ca) Lisp		34.614
7	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		32.3521
8	German (de) Lisp		31.7629
9	Spanish (es) Lisp		29.1173
10	Hebrew (he) Lisp		27.9415

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		9 287 496
2	Russian (ru) Лисп		1 247 008
3	Japanese (ja) LISP		1 040 480
4	Spanish (es) Lisp		792 557
5	German (de) Lisp		761 907
6	French (fr) Lisp		561 032
7	Chinese (zh) LISP		505 403
8	Polish (pl) Lisp		363 067
9	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		345 681
10	Italian (it) Lisp		256 084

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)		28 815
2	Japanese (ja) LISP		1 597
3	Russian (ru) Лисп		1 545
4	German (de) Lisp		1 469
5	Chinese (zh) LISP		1 002
6	French (fr) Lisp		988
7	Spanish (es) Lisp		716
8	Polish (pl) Lisp		501
9	Italian (it) Lisp		464
10	Portuguese (pt) Lisp		402

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)		661
2	German (de) Lisp		185
3	French (fr) Lisp		164
4	Russian (ru) Лисп		138
5	Italian (it) Lisp		109
6	Japanese (ja) LISP		93
7	Polish (pl) Lisp		86
8	Spanish (es) Lisp		82
9	Dutch (nl) Lisp (programmeertaal)		76
10	Chinese (zh) LISP		72

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	Arabic (ar) ليسب		1
2	Czech (cs) Lisp		1
3	English (en) Lisp (programming language)		1
4	Latin (la) Lisp		1
5	Polish (pl) Lisp		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Lisp		0
7	Belarusian (be) Лісп		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Lisp (език за програмиране)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Lisp		0
10	Danish (da) Lisp		0

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

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