The ancient programming language that will get you a job in AI

Armando Gonzalez has got a problem. The CEO of Ravenpack, a company which uses artificial intelligence to turn news and social media into usable indicators for financial services firms, is struggling to hire one particular species of coder: Lisp (formerly known as LISP) specialists. There just aren't enough of them to go around. "We're very actively hiring in data science," says Gonzalez. "Our team is going to grow by 20% to 30% this year and we're looking for data science specialists and developers who work across everything from Python to Lisp, but Lisp professionals are very hard to find."