LISP started life in 1958, when mathematician and computer scientist John McCarthy ... rather than a fleshed-out programming language. History, however, had other ideas. McCarthy’s ideas caught ...

Lisp is one of those interesting computer languages that you either ... might be useful for people who just want to compare programming languages. We also couldn’t help but think of JONESFORTH ...

In the early 1970s, a team of engineers at MIT’s AI Lab launched a revolution in computer programming. Lisp, a family of programming languages the lab had begun developing in the 1950s ...

Lisp is a programming language that was created in the late 1950s, making it one of the oldest programming languages still in use today. Lisp is known for its unique syntax and its powerful ...

which is why we ended up with such an amazing range of programming languages, even if most trace their roots back to ALGOL. Of the more unique (and practical) languages, Lisp and Forth probably ...

A computer science Ph.D. candidate at Indiana ... The syntax is based on Scheme, which itself is based on the much-beloved Lisp programming language. Originally developed in 1958, Lisp has ...