Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 07:09:27 02/09/04
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On February 09, 2004 at 09:44:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 09, 2004 at 06:31:51, Steven Edwards wrote: >>Lisp is actually the second oldest higher level programming language. It was >>defined back in 1960, two years after Fortran. > >It was around several years before that though, wasn't it? For some reason I >thought it was before Fortran. Nope. See http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node2.html Note how John McCarthy, inventor of Lisp, was inspired by the needs of representing chess moves and so came up with the idea of representing a general conditional expression in a programming language. He had tried doing it in Fortran, saw the deficiencies, and so was motivated to add true contitionals to Lisp.
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