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Lisp was developed in the late 1950s by John McCarthy at MIT and, excepting FORTRAN, is the oldest high-level computer language that is still widely used. He chose the name LISP as an acronym for LISt Processing, because much of what we do in the language involves operations on lists of data and code.
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Harkow, R. (1996). The AutoLISP World. In: Essential AutoLISP®. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2350-4_1
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