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John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (born 1927)
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John McCarthy (computer scientist)
American scientist (1927–2011)
John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Programming language family
Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in the late 1950s, it is the second-oldest high-level programming language still in common use, after Fortran. Lisp has changed since its…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)