There are two kinds of programmers: those who don’t use Lisp, and those who need new parenthesis keycaps every six months. Lisp is one of those languages you either really love or really hate. If you ...

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, ...

LISP was once a language of choice for computer science research, specifically in the area of artificial intelligence. And so a few LISP startups were created in the 1980s with great optimism, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lisp is still (sort of) the default language for customising AutoCAD. More in its guise as a list processing (lists of coordinates, entities etc) language though than for its AI capabilities. IIRC GNU ...