http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/46/046EF000.htm?z=1&pg=2&br=1
LISP, acronym for List Processing, a computer programming language developed
from 1959 to 1960, used primarily to manipulate lists of data. LISP was a
departure from the procedural languages ( FORTRAN, ALGOL) then being
developed; it is an interpreted language in which every expression is a list of
calls to functions. LISP continues to be heavily used in research and academia
and has been considered the standard language for artificial intelligence
research, although Prolog has made inroads into that field.
This is the "concise" version. I wonder whether the "Deluxe" version
is better?
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http://www.lavielle.com/~joswig
OK, so who do we contact at Microsloth to get this definition fixed?
-- Chuck
In article <·······················@pbg3.lavielle.com>,
Rainer Joswig <······@lavielle.com> wrote:
>http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/46/046EF000.htm?z=1&pg=2&br=1
>
> LISP, acronym for List Processing, a computer programming language developed
> from 1959 to 1960, used primarily to manipulate lists of data. LISP was a
> departure from the procedural languages ( FORTRAN, ALGOL) then being
> developed; it is an interpreted language in which every expression is a list of
> calls to functions. LISP continues to be heavily used in research and academia
> and has been considered the standard language for artificial intelligence
> research, although Prolog has made inroads into that field.
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