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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Lisp, an artificial intelligence language dating back to the 1960's, will make a re-appearance in EDA if a startup called Simantix Systems has its way. Simantix, a five-person ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since it has been mentioned in here a few times, I've become curious about learning functional programming (specifically Lisp or O'Caml). However, my half-hearted attempts so far have not helped me ...