Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...

John McCarthy, the creator of the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has died. He was 84. McCarthy died Monday, Stanford University’s School of Engineering announced ...

How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab­—and made a lasting mark on programming. In the early 1970s, a team of engineers at MIT’s AI Lab launched a ...

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 ...

Overview Built for systems programming, C remains deeply embedded in operating systems, networking and performance-critical ...

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 ...

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. AI master: John ...

Peter Coffee has an interesting article about "="" programming="" languages"=""> (and techniques) that are being used in mainstream applications. Peter mentions LISP, Prolog, genetic programming, and ...