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copied!<p><strong>Lisp is a large family of languages and implementations.</strong> Scheme for example is a Lisp dialect with probably more than one hundred implementations (about ten of them mildly popular). Common Lisp is another dialect with about ten currently maintained implementations. Scheme and Common Lisp both have written standards that implementations try to implement.</p> <p><strong>F# is both a language and implementation.</strong> From Microsoft. It was mostly derived from OCAML and belongs to the family of ML languages.</p> <p>Lisp was a very early language supporting functional programming (Lisp 1.5 in the 60s). Lots of the early experiments with functional programming was done in Lisp. In the 70s in the Lisp community there was a movement to the roots of functional programming and the result was <strong>Scheme</strong>. Then especially in the 80s and 90s of the last century new functional languages appeared (ML, Miranda, FP, SML, Haskell, Clean, ...) that were/are quite different from the usual Lisp dialects. There is still some heritage, but mostly they developed in different directions (static typing, type inference, module systems, batch languages, algebraic data types, lazy evaluation, purity, and more). The Scheme community still has lots of contacts to the FP community. But that's mostly it.</p> <p>There are some basic FP ideas that can be learned independent from a particular FP language, but generally F# is very different from most Lisp dialects. The other feature, that F# supports the .net ecosystem (especially since it is a Microsoft creation) is not that well supported by Lisp dialects.</p> <p>I would also not expect much benefit from knowing a restricted Lisp dialect like Emacs Lisp for learning F#.</p>

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