“This is not a language you can use to program computers, just as the Lisp in the 1960 paper wasn’t,” Graham wrote. Bel was so much more work than you'd guess from looking at it.

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the ...

Developed by MIT alum John McCarthy in 1959, LISP is one of the oldest programming languages, yet companies including Cadence and Grammarly still use it to build commercial products.

Robust Functionality The 1980s saw two notable programming languages, C++ and Objective-C, among others like Lisp, Ada, and MATLAB. If you recognize these, it’s for good reason.

Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has an obvious fond… ...

Originally developed in 1958, Lisp has influenced some of the most popular modern languages including Perl, JavaScript, and Ruby -- though, perhaps unsurprisingly, Lisp's lots of irritating ...

McCarthy invented Lisp, a program that became the language of choice for AI, in 1958 while at MIT and published its design in the 1960 paper Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their ...

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 ...

John McCarthy, creator of the Lisp programming language and pioneer in utility computing—the forerunner of today’s cloud computing—died Sunday in Stanford, California. He was 84. AI master ...

Developed by MIT alum John McCarthy in 1959, LISP is one of the oldest programming languages, yet companies including Cadence and Grammarly still use it to build commercial products.