Lisp Historical Precedence
Discussions focus on the history of early programming languages, particularly how Lisp and contemporaries like Algol, BCPL, and Smalltalk pioneered features such as garbage collection, abstractions, and Lisp machines well before C and modern languages.
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You might want to go learn a bit of history:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
IBM 704 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Hi...
With BCPLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20250130134200/https://www.bell-...See also this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462794
you forgot algol (or algol60 if you prefer), which begat (almost) all...
Was it different for the designers of ALGOL/SIMULA/Pascal?
That sounds like a new version.McCarthy says in his 1960 paper about Lisp just in the first paragraph of the introduction:> A programming system called LISP (for LISt Processor) has been developed for the IBM 704 computer by the Artificial Intelligence group at M.I.T. The system was designed to facilitate experiments with a proposed system called the Advice Taker, whereby a machine could be instructed to handle declarative as well as imperative sentences and could exhibit ``common sens
Lisp and Smalltalk were the first ones.
I though ALGOL was a 60's language
@nineteen999: that all happened a long time ago. Study your history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
Yes, it was called Lisp Machines,Mesa/Cedar and Smalltalk.