LISP: a programming system for symbolic manipulations

Authors: John McCarthy - Preprints of papers presented at the 14th national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery on - ACM '59 1959 cited by 16

LISP (for LISt Processor) is a programming system for the IBM 704 being developed by the Artificial Intelligence Group at MIT. We are developing it in order to program the Advice Taker which is to be a system for instructing a machine in a combination of declarative and imperative sentences.