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. Lisp is a programming language that was created in the late 1950s, making it one of the oldest programming languages still in use today.

“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 ...

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. Both are based upon C but with ...

AutoCAD is drafting and design software used to create everything from buildings to households items. But what if its connection to the 1960-founded LISP programming language could help engineers ...

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 ...

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. McCarthy ...