Powerful computer programming language designed for manipulating lists of data or symbols rather than processing numerical data, used extensively in
It was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by a group headed by John McCarthy at MIT. Its name derives from "list processor." Radically different from such other programming languages as {{link=ALGOL">ALGOL , C , C++ , FORTRAN , and Pascal , it requires large memory space and is slow in executing programs.