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Lisp (programming language)

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LISP (or Lisp) is the name for a programming language. It is among the oldest programming languages that are still used today. Only Fortran is older. LISP was designed by John McCarthy in 1958. The two best-known dialects of LISP are Common Lisp and Scheme. Originally, LISP was based on the mathematical concept of lambda calculus (developed by Alonzo Church). It quickly developed into a language used for Artificial intelligence. Many concepts that are used in modern programming languages were pioneered by LISP. This is the case for Object-oriented programming, tree data structures and dynamic typing amongst others.

Linked lists are a very important data structure in LISP. Quite a lot can be done using linked lists. From there LISP has its name. It stands for LISt Processor.

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