LISP

Posted by Gary on September 07, 2004

In Reply to: LISP posted by Ward on September 07, 2004

: : Who invented the word 'lisp'? Is it named after someone? It better be, otherwise the person who invented was playing a very cruel joke. Trust me - that's a difficult word to say, if you are in fact someone with that very problem.

: lisp the speech problem; and then there was LISP the computer programming language. In the grand days of Artificial Intelligence (the 80s) the hot programmers were the ones who could program in this obscure object oriented language. The AI guys were going to do away with all us normal blokes, and I'm generally pleased that nothing much has come of it. Seems to me that good old natural intelligence is much to be preferred.

Just for info. Lisp is a functionl language not object oriented.