As giantrobot said, Symbolics is the name of the company. I'd like to expand more on why. One feature that is relatively unique to Lisp is that it has a symbol

As giantrobot said, Symbolics is the name of the company. I'd like to expand more on why. One feature that is relatively unique to Lisp is that it has a symbol type. Lisp code can use this type to represent Lisp code - making macros and dynamic code generation / evaluation a breeze. The name is a reference to this feature of Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression