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A Fortran-Compiled List Processing Language (1959) [pdf]

• abrax3141 4y ago
  This is an amazing "missing link" between IPL and Lisp. Note McCarty's involvement (p. 88), and the incredibly lisp-like function names and functional expression syntax (p. 94++)
  • tabtab 4y ago
    So where is "Fortran compiler written in Lisp"? :-)
    • Jtsummers 4y ago
      http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html
• abrax3141 4y ago
  McCarthy credits FLPL as well. http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
• gabrielsroka 4y ago
  • Jtsummers 4y ago
    http://informatimago.free.fr/i//articles/flpl/ http://informatimago.free.fr/i//articles/flpl/ <- Here's a first page Google search result on the title of the article. It wasn't hard to find.
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