29 Oct
2011
29 Oct
'11
6:32 a.m.
On 28/10/11 10:15 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Liam Proven
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:18 PM
On 26 October 2011 13:40, Toby Thain<toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
It's available online
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html
via his home page, http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
For history buffs (not so much Lisp learners),
there is also Lisp I Programmer's Manual (March 1, 1960)
http://history.siam.org/sup/Fox_1960_LISP.pdf
--Toby
> Last night I came across (via Quora*) a piece
by Paul Graham that tries to
> put McCarthy's early Lisp work into perspective.
> http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html
> (The article itself is linked here as a PostScript file.)
> I haven't read it all yet.
Nice article - thanks for that!
I'll second that. Very nice precis.
The more I read about Lisp, the more I want to
understand... but I
suspect I am too old& even in my youth I never got much past BASIC.
The only Lisp I've been able to follow code in is Dylan, and Dylan
seems to be rather moribund... :?(
JMC actually used what he called Lisp 2 in his classes, an algebraic
notation not unlike Dylan, very Algol-like in flavor. Not surprising,
when you think of the relative ages of Lisp and Algol.
...
If you get access JMC's 1960 paper in ACM, read it. ...
Enough for this evening.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
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