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Lisp is short for List Processing. It is a computer language that is used in many applications of artificial intelligence. One of its major qualities is that it can manipulate lists easily. Lisp was developed in the 1950s by John McCarthy [32]. It is one of the most commonly used languages for writing a computer algebra system. Reduce, Macsyma, Derive and Axiom are based on Lisp. The basic data types in Lisp are atoms and dotted pairs. Lists are built from dotted pairs. Most of the functions in Lisp operate on lists. Moreover arithmetic operations are also possible in Lisp.
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Shi, T.K., Steeb, WH., Hardy, Y. (2000). Lisp and Computer Algebra. In: SymbolicC++. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0405-6_9
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