Call it curiosity, but I was interested in how programming developed here in greater Boston area. I did some homework and compiled a list of languages affected by the Hub (in alphabetical order ...

John McCarthy, a computer scientist who invented the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), has died aged 84. McCarthy was born in 1927 in Boston to an Irish ...

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, a family of programming languages the lab had begun developing in the 1950s, ... PhD ’73, who co-invented a Lisp dialect called Scheme at the AI Lab and later joined the MIT faculty, ...

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… ...

Lisp is the second oldest high-level programming language still in use, and it heavily influenced countless other languages over the years. Alan Kay – one of the researchers who practically laid ...

I've always had a thing for programming languages. I like to analyze them to see what features they bring to the table and how to take advantage of them. It's not surprising that I ran into Lisp ...

“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. But this ...