And there are several open-source implementations of the Lisp programming language for the JVM out there, ready to be explored. So what makes Lisp worth looking at?

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is 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 ...

I know it's a dialect of Lisp, and does things the functional way, but is it different enough from both Lisp (its parent) and ML (its colleague functional-programming-wise) to be useful to learn?

Stack Overflow surveyed over 80,000 developers to find the highest-paying programming languages, including Clojure, Elixir, and Scala.

As a programming language, Lisp has been around longer than any other active language except for Fortran. To anyone who regularly uses it, it’s easy to see why: the language allows for new ...

John McCarthy, the creator of the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has died. He was 84.