American computer scientist John McCarthy (1927–). LISP, an acronym for LISt Processing, is a programming language developed by John McCarthy in the late 1950s. Although LISP is a general-purpose language, it is often...

Programming languages are not natural features of the computer landscape, though students are often expected to study them as if they were. They have histories; they are invented, struggle for popularity, and eventually decline. Very few languages have...

Acronym for list processing language, a functional programming language for symbolic processing based semantically on the lambda calculus which has established itself as a standard programming language in computational linguistics and artificial...

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Presented is a sample of computerized methods aimed at multidimensional scaling and psychometric item analysis that offer a dynamic graphical interface to execute analyses and help visualize the results. These methods show how the Lisp-Stat programming language and the ViSta statistical program can be...

APDA's $495 Macintosh Common Lisp 2.0 development environment includes an EMACS-like editor that can be extended, good sample code and excellent documentation on both paper and CD-ROM. The product has extensive debugging and interface-building tools; programmers can create object-based controls for Macintosh windows, dialog...