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 first true
implementation of the language. Along the way we will see just why
LISP is called elegant, and how it was tailored for thinking
machines.
Selected Sources:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1145/321021.321022 -
FLPL
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59.pdf - Machines
with Common Sense
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6096/AIM-008.pdf
- AI Memo 8
