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Category Archives: LISP
50th Anniversary of LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual
I just noticed that August 17 was the 50th anniversary of the LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual by John McCarthy, Paul W. Abrahams, Daniel J. Edwards, Timothy P. Hart, and Michael I. Levin. On that day in 1962 it was published … Continue reading
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Harold V. McIntosh and his students: Lisp escapes MIT
In today’s wired world, people will start experimenting with an interesting new programming language shortly after it appears on a hosting service. But things took longer in the early days of Lisp. McCarthy’s famous paper[1] on Lisp was presented at … Continue reading
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The First International LISP Conference (1963)
If you thought the 1980 LISP Conference was the first Lisp conference, you were wrong. The 1980 conference was organized by Ruth E. Davis and John R. Allen and was held at Stanford University, with sponsorship by Stanford, Santa Clara … Continue reading
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Herbert Stoyan Collection finding aid and catalog online at CHM
In July 2010 I wrote about the collection of Lisp and artificial intelligence documents that Herbert Stoyan donated to the Computer History Museum. Today I’m glad to be able to announce that the finding aid is online at CHM and … Continue reading
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LISP historical archive web site reorganized
The History of LISP web site launched back in 2005 as a single web page running some 40 pages when printed; it covered many of the best known Lisp implementations. Over the years, the web site approximately doubled in size, … Continue reading
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SDC: Q-32 Lisp, Lisp 2, and three more; Lisp 1.5 Primer
Lisp’s birth and infancy was at MIT, but it began spreading to other places when John McCarthy went to Stanford and other project members graduated and moved on. At about this time, a project began to develop a new language, … Continue reading
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Herbert Stoyan’s Lisp collection at CHM
Last winter Herbert Stoyan very generously donated to the Computer History Museum the extensive collection of Lisp and AI materials he assembled in the course of his extensive study of Lisp and its history: manuals, technical reports, papers, books, listings, … Continue reading
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Notes from Lisp50
The Learning Lisp blog has an interesting series of postings on the recent Lisp50 conference: JonL Recalls How Sussman Revealed the Nature of Intelligence… Model-View-Controller Considered Harmful McCarthy Reaffirms the Importance of Having Access to the Abstract Syntax Fritz Kunze … Continue reading
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Lisp’s 50th Birthday Celebration
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lisp is taking place in October at OOPSLA 2008. John McCarthy will give a talk about the early history of Lisp. Also Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel will repeat their 1992 HOPL-II talk … Continue reading
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VLISP documents; LISP Bulletin #2 and #3
Jérôme Chailloux recently told me about the wonderful ArtInfo-MusInfo web site, which contains a variety of documents produced by a group of “painters, musicians, psychologists, pedagogues, linguists, mathematicians, poets, architects and computer scientists gathered within the Computer Science Department of … Continue reading
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The Revised MacLisp Manual goes online
MIT’s MacLisp played a key role in Lisp history, but its documentation often lagged the system as developers concentrated on adding features and improving performance. Around the time that Lisp machine development eclipsed PDP-10 MacLisp, this final MacLisp document was … Continue reading
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IBSYS Fortran II runs on a SIMH-based simulator
An upcoming release of Bob Supnik’s SIMH (Computer History Simulation system) will include IBM 704/709/7090/7094 simulation provided by Rich Cornwell. Rich has been very busy lately: implementing and debugging the simulations of the CPU, channels, controllers, and devices; tracking down … Continue reading
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Brad Parker resurrects MIT CADR Lisp Machine source code
Brad Parker recently announced: After a long and interesting search I uncovered a set of 9-track tapes which appear to be a snapshot of the MIT CADR Lisp machine source code from around 1980. This is not the final source … Continue reading
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Stanford LISP 1.6; the original Standard LISP
Work on LISP spread from McCarthy’s original M.I.T. project to other projects at M.I.T. and then to other institutions as people moved on and word about the capabilities of the language spread. John Allen brought a snapshot of the M.I.T.’s … Continue reading
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Classic LISP books online
With the permission of The MIT Press, I have posted online copies of two classic LISP books on the History of Lisp website at the Computer History Museum: John McCarthy, Paul W. Abrahams, Daniel J. Edwards, Timothy P. Hart and … Continue reading
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Pascal Bourguignon recreates machine-readable source for LISP 1.5
Pascal Bourguignon encountered this item on my History of LISP web site: LISP system assembly listing. “FIELD TEST ASSEMBLY OF LISP 1.5 SEPTEMBER 1961″, labeled “Bonnie’s Birthday Assembly”. M.I.T. Museum, donated by Timothy P. Hart and scanned by Jack Harper. … Continue reading
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Archiving LISP history
Based on the progress I’ve made with FORTRAN, I decided to start another effort at the Computer History Museum to track down source code and documents for the original M.I.T. LISP I/1.5 project. I have made some progress, and am … Continue reading
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