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Lisp Language

Era: Birth of AI · 1950s–1970s

John McCarthy developed Lisp at MIT, an early high-level programming language closely associated with AI research. Lisp’s flexibility and powerful symbolic processing made it the language of choice for AI research.

John McCarthy

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  1. Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I

    Communications of the ACM · Source type: paper

    McCarthy’s paper defines core LISP notation and evaluation.

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