3 ms·I remember the original Lisp manual describes it as a symbolic language for “AI”by iterateoften 2y agoI remember the original Lisp manual describes it as a symbolic language for “AI”hollerith 2y agoLisp's inventor, John McCarthy, was an AI researcher. (The US government started funding AI research in the 1950s, expecting progress to be much faster than it actually was.)RHSeeger 2y agoWhen I studied AI in grad school (decades ago), most of the classes were done in Lisp.