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

[Jeff Kinz]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> >	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


Quiz answer:
First Machine mentioned is the "704". Not the 7404 that I was thinking.
(If there even ever was a "7404" for that matter.)

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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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