Lisp – ISO/IEC 13816

Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year. Lisp was invented by John McCarthy while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). McCarthy published its design in a paper in Communications of the ACM in 1960, entitled "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I". He showed that with a few simple operators and a notation for functions, one can build a Turing-complete language for algorithms. Lisp has since been implemented on a wide variety of computer platforms. Many dialects have existed over its history, with the most prominent ones being Common Lisp and Scheme. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became popular among programmers for its concise and flexible syntax. Lisp is used in a wide variety of applications, from commercial software products to research projects in artificial intelligence (AI). Lisp is a dialect of the Scheme programming language, and many of its implementations are Scheme compatible. Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose, dynamically typed, interpreted, garbage-collected, programming language with special-purpose features for computer programming, originally specified in 1958. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became popular among programmers for its concise and flexible syntax. Lisp is used in a wide variety of applications, from commercial software products to research projects in artificial intelligence (AI). Lisp is a dialect of the Scheme programming language, and many of its implementations are Scheme compatible. Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose, dynamically typed, interpreted, garbage-collected, programming language with special-purpose features for computer programming, originally specified in 1958. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became popular among programmers for its concise and flexible syntax. Lisp is used in a wide variety of applications, from commercial software products to research projects in artificial intelligence (AI). Lisp is a dialect of the Scheme programming language, and many of its implementations are Scheme compatible.