LISP
The development of LISP started in 1959 by the Artificial Intelligence Group at M.I.T. The language
was developed in order to faciliate experiments with a proposed system called the Advice Taker. The language was able to be
instructed to handle declarative and imperative sentences and exhibit common sense
in carrying out these instructions. LISP is known as the first functional language and is widely used
for Al and symbolic mathematics. LISP however is not a very general language and is only suited for
general symbol manipulation and list processing.