Programming Language History [was Re: F/OS & the blind ]

[Jon maddog Hall]

>	I thought that my copy of McCarthy's lisp book was dated 1957.

Well, here is the history of Lisp from the man himself.  While he talks about
the "pre-history" of Lisp in 1956 through summer of 1958, he credits the
"start of the LISP project" in Fall of 1958.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html

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