Well I confess I don't know LISP nearly as well as Prolog, but they were both languages that came out of a certain tradition of research in FOL and how to calcu

Well I confess I don't know LISP nearly as well as Prolog, but they were both languages that came out of a certain tradition of research in FOL and how to calculate it with computers. There was bound to be some overlap. I remember noticing the thing about LISP atoms and symbols etc. and I thought that's probably it.