Tag: Small Programs
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Elegant Addition-only Prime Generation in LISP
Brief history of LISP. LISP is a functional programming language that was created in the late 1950s by John McCarthy at MIT. It quickly became the lingua franca for symbolic AI because of its tiny, expressive core: homoiconic syntax (code-as-data), first-class functions/closures, macros that extend the language, and automatic memory management. McCarthy emphasized writing programs…
Michael Emmerich 