Re: Lisp, 50th Birthday



Pascal Costanza wrote:
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?


The first publication that mentioned the name "Lisp" was published in October 1958.


Cool, Cells does not even exist yet*, I have time to clean up the code!

Here is another date:

"My desire for an algebraic list processing language for artificial intelligence work on the IBM 704 computer arose in the summer of 1956 during the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence"
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node2.html#SECTION00020000000000000000

That might be better considered the date of conception (it *is* a quote from a section Dr. McCarthy called "Lisp prehistory") with date of birth reserved for the first interpreter.

Oops. Howard, I'm afraid we'll have to put the champagne on ice**:

"I wrote the first implimenation of a LISP interpreter on the IBM 704 at MIT in early in 1959. I hand-compiled John McCarthy's "Universal LISP Function"." http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HaCAR_CDR.html (scroll 80% down to "Email from Steve Russell")

kt

* But that might have changed, it *is* Friday after all.

** Let's see an NLP program parse *that*.

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