History of Lisp (original) (raw)

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John McCarthy Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Stanford University

12 February 1979

This draft gives insufficient mention to many people who helped implement LISP and who contributed ideas. Suggestions for improvements in that directions are particularly welcome. Facts about the history of FUNARG and uplevel addressing generally are especially needed.

• Introduction
• LISP prehistory - Summer 1956 through Summer 1958.
• The implementation of LISP
• From LISP 1 to LISP 1.5
• Beyond LISP 1.5
• Conclusions
• References
• About this document ...

John McCarthy Fri Jul 26 22:37:29 PDT 1996