Re: Lisp, 50th Birthday



howard yeh wrote:
I just realized.

Wikipedia: "Lisp was invented by John McCarthy in 1958..."

On which day should I open the champagne and party?

Same Q. Exactly when did that guy poke his head in John's door and say, "Sorry, I banged out a few lines assembler, want to give Lisp a try?"?

"S.R. Russell noticed that eval could serve as an interpreter for LISP, promptly hand coded it, and we now had a programming language with an interpreter."
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node3.html#SECTION00030000000000000000

We have at least a few months to figure this out. From the same page:
"The implementation of LISP began in Fall 1958. "

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