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 ...

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 ...

During the AI research boom of the 1970s, the LISP language – from LISt Processor – saw a major surge in use and development, including many dialects being developed. One of these dialects was Scheme, ...

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 ...

Just one week after Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer, mourners took to social networks and message boards to note the passing of computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, an event that was largely overlooked ...

The MakerLisp Embedded Lisp Machine is targeted at makers and developers of embedded systems for use at the edge of the IoT. Thus, you can only imagine my surprise and delight to be introduced to ...