Lisp vs Erlang Programming Language

Lisp is the High-Level Programming Language invented by John McCarthy in 1958 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. The name Lisp is derived from ‘List Processing Language’. Lisp programs deal with source code as a data structure.

It is suitable for Artificial Intelligence programs because it processes symbolic information effectively.

Properties of Lisp:

• High-Level Programming Language 
• Machine Independent Language
• Include Object-Oriented Programming
• Includes High debugging Feature
• Includes full I/O Library
• Expression Based Language

Syntax:

Lisp

(write-line "value to print")

Here write-line is the Print statement used to print some values

Erlang is a general-purpose language. Erlang was developed by Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, and Mike Williams in 1986. It supports concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance. When Erlang was created it was created to be used in several large telecommunication systems.

Now it is used in diverse sectors like e-commerce, computer telephony, banking sectors, etc.

Properties of Erlang:

• Functional Programming language
• Used in Industries like E-commerce and banking sectors
• It has a small but powerful set of primitives 
• It is suitable for Database applications
• It is used for error containment and fault tolerance Processes.
• It recasts the Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) in a functional framework

Syntax:

C++

% THIS PROGRAM IS WRITTEN IN ERLANG PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE %
-module(module_name).
-export([start/0]).

start() ->
   io:fwrite("value to Print).

Following are some of the differences between LISP and Erlang:

	LISP	Erlang
1.	It is a High-level Programming Language	It is a functional Programming language
2.	It is machine Independent Language	It is used in industries like e-commerce and banking sectors.
3.	It supports object-oriented Programming	It is used to create Database applications
4.	In Lisp ” ; “ is used to add comments	In Erlang ” % ” is used to add comments
5.	It includes a complete I/O Library	It has a Powerful set of Primitives
6.	Lisp was developed by John McCarthy in 1958	Erlang was developed by Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding and Mike Williams in 1986.
7.	It is an open source language.	It is an open source language.
8.	Lisp has high-level debugging system.	It is heavily to create applications.