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Learning Lisp (from 1984)

• ecounysis 15y ago
  "This material has NOT been updated from the original 1984 text which I found it completely by accident in a tarball at this address: http://venus.deis.unical.it/manuals/llisp/index.html http://venus.deis.unical.it/manuals/llisp/index.html. There are many errors and typos, and the version of lisp (P-Lisp, which ran on the Apple II) predates commonlisp, and no longer exists. So I strongly encourage you not to actually use this to learn Lisp!"
  • srl 15y ago
    Apparently, p-lisp does still exist: http://www.flownet.com/ron/plisp.html http://www.flownet.com/ron/plisp.html.
• rbanffy 15y ago
  Cool. If I manage to find this Lisp, I have a couple real Apple IIs to play with it. I can even provide screenshots (either from an emulator or pictures from a CRT).
  • lisper 15y ago
    Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.flownet.com/ron/plisp.html http://www.flownet.com/ron/plisp.html
    • rbanffy 15y ago
      Thank you very much. And, BTW, it's a great story. You should share it as a story on its own ;-)
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• kenjackson 15y ago
  In the contents there is no mention of macros. Macros aren't post 1984 are they? Or were they in the text of the tutorial?
  • vmathew 15y ago
    It has FExpressions, the earliest form of macros. The arguments of an FEXPR is evaluated on demand. (http://nostoc.stanford.edu/jeff/llisp/19.html http://nostoc.stanford.edu/jeff/llisp/19.html)