Jan 24, 2022
This is
the conclusion to my exploration of why LISP is the "mother tongue
of artificial intelligence". We pick up from the end of last
episode and continue to cover the early days of AI. We follow the
meandering path from the FORTRAN List Processing Language and IPL,
up to pen-and-paper versions of LISP and into the...
Jan 10, 2022
I'll
let you in on a secret: I've never understood why LISP is so
closely associated with artificial intelligence. I've decided to
fix this. In this episode, and the next, I'm tracing the early
roots of AI and why list processing is important in the field. This
episode we dive into the Information Processing
Language,...
