Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
# Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation

Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation (formerly LISP and Symbolic Computation) was a computer science journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It focuses on programming concepts and abstractions and programming language theory. The final issue appeared in 2013.

## Editors

Former editors-in-chief of the journal have been:

* Richard P. Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA (1988 – 1991)
* Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA (1988 – 1991)
* Robert R. Kessler, University of Utah, USA (1991 – 1998)

The last editors-in-chief were Olivier Danvy (Aarhus University) and Carolyn Talcott (SRI International).

## Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile, ACM Computing Reviews, ACM Digital Library, Computer Abstracts International Database, Computer Science Index, Current Abstracts, EBSCO, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, io-port.net, PASCAL, Scopus, Summon by Serial Solutions, VINITI Database RAS, and Zentralblatt MATH.

