PC-LISP is an implementation of the Franz Lisp dialect by Peter Ashwood-Smith.

Version 2.07 was released on 1 February 1986, and version 3.00 was released on 1 February 1990. A current version is available through GitHub.

Currently, PC-LISP runs under 32 & 64 bit versions of Linux, Mac, Windows, and NetBSD. For NetBSD there also exists ports for AArch64, ARMv5/6/7, PowerPC, Motorola 68000, SPARC/SPARC64, Alpha and VAX.

Note that the Franz LISP dialect was the immediate, portable successor to the ITS version of Maclisp and is perhaps the closest thing to the LISP in the Steven Levy book Hackers as is practical to operate.^{[citation needed]}

PC-LISP is written primarily in the C programming language, with some parts now also written in Common Lisp. Because PC-LISP implements Franz LISP, it is a dynamically scoped predecessor to modern Common Lisp.

The session is running the following code which demonstrates dynamic scoping in Franz LISP. Note that PC-LISP does not implement the let special form that Emacs Lisp provides for local variables. Instead, all variables are what an ALGOL-based language would call "global". The first dialect of Lisp to incorporate ALGOL scoping rules (called lexical scoping) was Scheme although the Common Lisp language also added this feature.^{[citation needed]}

Another example showing the use of backquote and the power of LISP. This is a differentiation example.^{[citation needed]}