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...

Powerful computer programming language designed for manipulating lists of data or symbols rather than processing numerical data, used extensively in artificial-intelligence applications. It was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by a group...

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