Lisp is a supremely elegant programming language, but you won’t find it around much today. That’s a shame; in the 80s and 90s, all the cool kids were using Lisp machines, computers dedicated to 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 Lab­â€”and made a lasting mark on programming. In the early 1970s, a team of engineers at MIT’s AI Lab launched a ...