Lisp

[stickmansquark]

Just out of curiosity I went to MITs OpenCourseWare and was looking aroudnw hen I found this piece of information.
"For example, Lisp has become a language of choice for operating-system shell languages and for extension languages for editors and computer-aided design systems."
- http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-te...ook-Z-H-9.html

This is very confusing or me, becuase I have heard form mutiple sources that one of the main implementations of Lisp was in the programming of robots and/or AI as well.

[MemorY]

http://www.campusprogram.com/referen..._language.html

Table of contents
1 History
2 Syntax
3 Minimal Lisp
4 Example programs
5 Object systems
6 Implementation
7 Genealogy and Variants
8 See also

helps ? a little bit ?

never used lisp so i dont know. this was a quick search i did.

[cacosapo]

LISP is very usefull when doing GA (Genetic Algorithms). You can construct "dynamic" programs with LISP and GA. Take a look on internet.

[gunder]

I've never used it before but from what I understand it's a simple language that is easily extendable and embedded so that's why it's used as an extension language.