Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

John McCarthy, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, died Sunday. He was 84. In 1958, while at MIT, McCarthy invented the programming language LISP, which has become the main language for ...

Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...

Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has an obvious ...

AutoCAD is drafting and design software used to create everything from buildings to households items. But what if its connection to the 1960-founded LISP programming language could help engineers ...

I've always had a thing for programming languages. I like to analyze them to see what features they bring to the table and how to take advantage of them. It's not surprising that I ran into Lisp ...