Many of us already have at least a passing acquaintance with procedural languages such as BASIC or Pascal, but may not have met a functional language like Lisp

Lisp is the second oldest computer language still in everyday use (the oldest if FORTRAN). Lisp was designed to make it possible to compute with abstract symbol

* Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns. This could be considered to be a secondary text for the Lisp c