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No idea how accurate it is, but Wikipedia says that ISWIM was influenced by Lisp...
by didibus 7y ago
No idea how accurate it is, but Wikipedia says that ISWIM was influenced by Lisp...
- cannabis_sam 7y agoThat is correct. From Landin’s paper: 6. Relationship to LISP ISWIM can be looked on as an attempt to deliver LISP from its eponymous commitment to lists, its reputation for hand-to-mouth storage allocation, the hardware dependent flavor of its pedagogy, its heavy bracketing, and its compromises with tradition.