Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the first high-level programming languages, designed to handle complex data structures. It is widely used in artificial intelligence research.
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- proper noun A
functional programming language with a distinctiveparenthesized syntax , much used inartificial intelligence .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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LISP • In 1987 & 1991 I wrote symbolic math libraries in Lisp.
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I did program in Lisp one semester in college for an AI course I was taking.
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Maybe Lisp is not very successful because it’s functional, which requires a different and more evolved programming mindset.
Reflective Surface - Programming, aesthetics, and religion 2004
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What cruek\l person used the phonetic challenge word Lisp to describe that issue.
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What cruek\l person used the phonetic challenge word Lisp to describe that issue.
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Or worry, but know that measuring lines of code is as effective as trying to count parenthesis in Lisp.
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Or worry, but know that measuring lines of code is as effective as trying to count parenthesis in Lisp.
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He developed the venerable computer programming language called Lisp, using it develop one of the first computer chess programs.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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From this description, it would seem that almost everybody would want to use Lisp, which is in fact true.
OSNews 2009
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In the age of dynamic languages and closures, most of you have probably heard of a mighty dragon called Lisp (which stands for LISt Processing), whose fans look almost with despise at other languages rediscovering it.
OSNews 2009
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