Lisp for Statistical Computing Along the years, there have been many calls and attempts to use Lisp dialects for statistics. That is a long story. Till we write a good summary of it, here are some historical examples worth looking into. Lisp-Stat, XLispStat by L. Tierney and some projetcs continuing them Lush by Y. LeCun This influencial 2008 paper by R. Ihaka (one of R's inventors) and D.T. Lang This 2019 pamphlet by R.M. Godek Clojure's Incanter library by D.E. Liebke, later maintained by A. Ott