John McCarthy began developing Lisp in 1958 while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). McCarthy published its design … Näytä lisää

Paul Graham identifies nine important aspects of Lisp that distinguished it from existing languages like Fortran:
• Conditionals not limited to goto
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Here are examples of Common Lisp code.
The basic "Hello, World!" program:
Lisp syntax lends itself naturally to recursion. Mathematical problems such as the enumeration … Näytä lisää

Several operating systems, including language-based systems, are based on Lisp (use Lisp features, conventions, methods, data … Näytä lisää

Common Lisp and Scheme represent two major streams of Lisp development. These languages embody significantly different design choices.
Common Lisp is … Näytä lisää

This article's examples are written in Common Lisp (though most are also valid in Scheme).
Symbolic expressions (S-expressions)
Lisp is an Näytä lisää

Various object systems and models have been built on top of, alongside, or into Lisp, including
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