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> which is why it took 20 years of further research to go from Lisp 1 to Scheme. Actually it only took Peter Landin a few years. For example see: P. J. Landin
by pmcjones 4y ago
> which is why it took 20 years of further research to go from Lisp 1 to Scheme.
Actually it only took Peter Landin a few years. For example see:
P. J. Landin, The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions, The Computer Journal, Volume 6, Issue 4, January 1964, Pages 308–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/6.4.308 https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/6.4.308
- lisper 4y agoThanks for that link! TIL.
- pmcjones 4y agoAlso: MIT's PAL (1968 -- Art Evans, Martin Richards, and others) and John Reynolds' GEDANKEN (1969): https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/PAL/ https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/PAL/ https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/GEDANKEN/ https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/GEDANKEN/