Lisp
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Developed byJohn McCarthy
Founded1958
Open source✓ Open Source
Use casefunctional programming
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Lisp

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Family of programming languages with distinctive parenthesized syntax, historically significant in AI research.

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developed by

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founded year

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influenced

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based on

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open source

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