Neil McAllister honors Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy by recalling their profound, lasting contributions to software development.

Just like LISP started life as a system of notation and later evolved into a fully-fledged programming language, Graham wants to keep Bel in its incubation period for as long as possible.

Developed by MIT alum John McCarthy in 1959, LISP is one of the oldest programming languages, yet companies including Cadence and Grammarly still use it to build commercial products.