This is McCarthy's paper on Lisp for HOPL (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programmin

This is McCarthy's paper on Lisp for HOPL (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languag... in 1978. McCarthy praised Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/lisp-enter.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.infor... above his own "History of Lisp": "Stoyan's reading of the early LISP documents gives a more accurate picture than my own memories turned out to have given." http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/ http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/ For HOPL 2 in 1993 Guy Steele and Richard P. Gabriel wrote "The Evolution of Lisp" https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf which continued the story up to about 1992-3.