News Analysis: LISP has potential to handle Web-facing applications using fewer lines of code, and with acceptable memory use and execution speed.

Contrary to popular belief, LISP does not stand for “lots of irritating spurious parenthesis.” However, it is true that people tend to love or hate this venerable programming language. … ...

Not quite 20 years ago, I was consulting for Symbolics, working on a Windows front end for PC Macsyma. I was writing Windows code in C, and working closely with a Symbolics LISP programmer named ...

McCarthy, on the other hand, is the father of Lisp, one of the earliest programming languages. In many ways, C and Lisp are opposites in terms of design, implementation, and approach.

'LISP is more than just a programming language, it's the perfect language to train your thinking,' said Alan Kay, praising the 'LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual' as a 'perfect classic.' ...

A high-end workstation used to execute applications written in the LISP programming language. Typically with keyboards customized for LISP commands, machines from Symbolics, Lisp Machines Inc., TI ...