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

As a programming language, Lisp has been around longer than any other active language except for Fortran. To anyone who regularly uses it, it’s easy to see why: the language allows for new ...

So I've started into learning lisp. For my learning project I've decided to try and write a small game by linking to the SDL library through a dll. So far going surprisingly well. The thing I don ...

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 ...

Neil McAllister honors Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy by recalling their profound, lasting contributions to software development.

Sure, a Lisp programmer can tell a C programmer how great macros are, just as liberals can try to explain to conservatives why denying marriage equality is unfair to gay people.

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 ...

Stack Overflow surveyed over 80,000 developers to find the highest-paying programming languages, including Clojure, Elixir, and Scala.

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. … ...

Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard Sakurai programmed a Game Boy classic with a trackball and a Famicom Twin.