Multiple choice

Which is the first computer language designed for writing artificial intelligence program?

  1. BASIC

  2. COBOL

  3. FORTRAN

  4. LISP
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Explanation

LISP (LISt Processing) was developed by John McCarthy in 1958 specifically for artificial intelligence research and remains influential in AI to this day. LISP's unique features - symbolic computation, recursive functions, and list-based data structures - made it ideal for early AI applications like natural language processing and theorem proving. Many modern AI concepts have roots in LISP, and it heavily influenced later AI languages like Prolog and Python.

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