Which statement about programming languages is true?
lisp was designed for artificial intelligence research.
basic was the first high-level programming language.
fortran was an early programming language designed for business use.
pascal was the first programming language for personal computers.

Option A: Lisp was designed for artificial intelligence research.

Explanation:

The acronym Lisp stands for List Programming is a computer programming language developed about 1960 by John McCarthy.Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language which has a widespread use today.LISP has a very simple syntax in which a parenthesized list is used to give operations and their operands.This Language was designed for manipulating data strings with convenience.Lisp includes all the working as the function of any object.Lisp uses symbolic functions which are easy to use with AI applications.Originally Lisp was created as a practical mathematical notation used in computer programs.Lisp pioneered many revolutions in the field of computer science such as tree data structures, automatic storage management etc.