McCarthy and his team published a lot of stuff. As for Python, Lisp was defined together with a reference implementation. See the Lisp 1 programmer's manual fr

McCarthy and his team published a lot of stuff. As for Python, Lisp was defined together with a reference implementation. See the Lisp 1 programmer's manual from 1960: http://history.siam.org/sup/Fox_1960_LISP.pdf http://history.siam.org/sup/Fox_1960_LISP.pdf This was then expanded into Lisp 1.5: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...