Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
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An introduction to the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom that honors John McCarthy by highlighting his role in founding AI and inventing Lisp; notes McCarthy’s contributions to artificial intelligence, the Lisp family of languages, and their influence on modern computing; and frames Lisp as one of the two oldest programming languages still in use.
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