Introducing Lisp The dominant programming language for experimental AI systems

Lisp strengths:

• Interactive

• Supports symbolic computation

• Programs and data share a common representation

• Automatic management of memory

• Simple syntax

• Multiparadigm (functional, imperative, object-oriented)

• Supported by a long history and wide literature

• Also used as an internal scripting language for Gnu Emacs, Autocad, and other packages.

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