LISP and its variants was the introductory programming language at MIT from the 1970s to the 2000s. Partly because they had the LISP/A.I. royalty on their facul

LISP and its variants was the introductory programming language at MIT from the 1970s to the 2000s. Partly because they had the LISP/A.I. royalty on their faculty in this era. Students complained they wanted something more modern to get a better internship. They was silly because the majority of students entered MIT having already learned the latest fad language during high school.