lisp
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The programming behind Aaron - written in LISP, which was invented by one of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, back in the 1960s - attempts to do just that.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2015
In 1958 — two years after organizing the first conference on artificial intelligence — McCarthy invented the computer programming language LISP.
From Nature • Nov. 2, 2011
McCarthy in 1959 was turning his interest from chess to a new way of talking to the computer, the whole new "language" called LISP.
From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Levy, Steven
Now rare as jargon, though still used as techspeak in Common LISP.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.
Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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