> Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval ..., and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for readi

> Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval ..., and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, he compiled the eval in my paper into [IBM] 704 machine code, fixing bugs, and then advertised this as a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. So at that point Lisp had essentially the form that it has today.... John McCarthy, in an interview quoted in http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html . Anyone lucky enough to meet Russell at CHM should ask politely for a photograph with him.