Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the ...

Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has an obvious ...

John McCarthy, creator of the Lisp programming language and pioneer in utility computing—the forerunner of today’s cloud computing—died Sunday in Stanford, California. He was 84. AI master: John ...

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Programming languages are important because they are the tools that developers use to create software, applications, and websites. Different programming languages have their own syntax, structure, and ...

This is a post about two things, but they fall under the category of "I'd like to learn language <I>x</I> . . ."<BR><BR>1. I'm about to order <I>ANSI Common Lisp</I> by Paul Graham from Amazon.com. It ...

While the average programmer can make over $100,000 a year in the US, some programming skills might be more lucrative than others. Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for developers with 50 million monthly ...