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Given your responses I wouldn't say its misworded but wrong. Specifically referring to his last sentence: "McCarthy didn't realize it could be used on computer
by alidcastano 7y ago
Given your responses I wouldn't say its misworded but wrong. Specifically referring to his last sentence:
"McCarthy didn't realize it could be used on computers till his graduate student Steve Russell suggested it."
Anyway, appreciate the clarification/link. Will try to correct my article when I get a chance.
- lispm 7y agoThat sentence refers to the interpreter as an evaluator for Lisp, where McCarthy had the idea and Steve Russell suggested that it could be implemented - and then also did it. Before, code was manually translated to an actual implementation on the machine. It seems also that it took time to get details and the semantics right - especially the problem of of lexical binding (the FUNARG problem) took more than a decade to fix.