“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.

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.

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… ...

Pictured above is the Lisperati 1000 portable workstation, designed to provide an ultra compact, portable, Lisp programming system, powered by the recently launched Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller.