LISP

LISP is a programming language developed primarily for symbolic AI applications. In order to make AI programming easy(er), the designers wanted a language that was oriented to list processing. Basic LISP is quite simple (it can be made very complicated -- read the Common LISP Reference Manual) and we will really only be concerned with the basics.

LISP is of interest to us for two reasons. First, it is a very important programming language and we need to look at it from that perspective. Second, we will be writing an interpreter for LISP, so we had better understand the language pretty well for this reason also.

Here is some basic information on LISP:

• Here is a simple overview of LISP.
• Here is some basic information on using the LISP interpreter on the Department Suns.
• Here are some hints on programming in LISP.

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