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- From: fy@lucid.com (Frank Yellin)
- Subject: Re: Origins of LISP and relation with Fortran
- In-Reply-To: girou@circe.fr's message of Wed, 23 Dec 92 11:18:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <FY.92Dec23105003@hardwick.lucid.com>
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- References: <1992Dec23.111821.201165@circe.fr>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 10:50:03
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- In article <1992Dec23.111821.201165@circe.fr> girou@circe.fr (Denis Girou)
- writes:
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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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- I'm sure John McCarthy will know the answer to this. Email to
- jmc@cs.stanford.edu should reach him.
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- -- Frank Yellin
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