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- From: girou@circe.fr (Denis Girou)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Origins of LISP and relation with Fortran
- Keywords: history, fortran
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.134446.170228@circe.fr>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 13:44:46 GMT
- Sender: news@circe.fr (News)
- Reply-To: girou@circe.fr
- Organization: CNRS/CIRCE
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- Dear friends,
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- I want to ask you a confirmation about an history point concerning the
- origins of LISP (the section 2-13 of the FAQ doesn't say something about that).
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- Some years ago, one of my teacher says during a lesson that when John
- McCarthy, around 1956, think to that will become LISP, he only want to write
- an extension to the Fortran language (Fortran I or Fortran II at this time)
- to manipulate lists structures. It would be only later that he thought to a
- real new language, completely independant of Fortran.
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- Is there somebody who can confirm or infirm this fact, and can give me a
- bibliographic reference? (it's for an article about Fortran that I have to
- write...)
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- Thanks for answer.
-
- Best regards,
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- Denis Girou (C.N.R.S./C.I.R.C.E.) |
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