- A Grace Hopper
- B John McCarthy
- C Alan Turing
- D Dennis Ritchie
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John McCarthy is credited with creating the Lisp programming language in the late 1950s.
The correct answer is John McCarthy
Key Points
- John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist.
- He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.
- He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection.
LISP (list processing)
- Lisp is a family of programming languages Designed by John McCarthy, with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
- Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language still in common use.
- Only Fortran is older, by one year.
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