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'''Information Processing Language''' ('''IPL''') is a [[programming language]] created by [[Allen Newell]], [[Cliff Shaw]], and [[Herbert A. Simon]] at [[RAND Corporation]] and the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] about 1956. Newell had the job of language specifier-application programmer, Shaw was the system programmer, and Simon had the job of application programmer-user.

TheIPL code includesincluded features intended to helpfacilitate withAI programsprogramming, that perform simplespecifically [[Problem_solving|problem solving actions]]. such as lists, [[dynamic memory allocation]], [[data type]]s, [[Recursion (computer science)|recursion]], [[Subroutine|functions]] as arguments, generators, and [[cooperative multitasking]]. IPL inventedalso introduced the conceptconcepts of [[Symbolic_language_(programming)|symbol processing]] and list processing. Unfortunately, albeitall of these innovations were cast in ana difficult [[Assembly language|assembly-language]] style. Nontheless, IPL-V (the only public version of IPL) ran on many computers through the mid 1960s.

==Basics of IPL==