Lisp
John McCarthy published Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I [McC60] in the April 1960 edition of Communications of the ACM (CACM), describing the development of the Lisp system by the Artificial Intelligence group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[75] Lisp’s general structure took its cues from the lambda calculus.
McCarthy and his team included Church’s notions of anonymous functions, functions as first- and higher-order structures. They also extended the lambda-calculus’s propositional and predicate functions (true, false, and, or, not, and other logic) into conditional expressions, making it easy to compute a recursive function without falling into an infinite loop. Lisp also ...
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