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> Lisp itself was a "basically designed overnight" language Roughly "overnight" for six years: http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf http://jmc.stanf
by lispm 4y ago
> Lisp itself was a "basically designed overnight" language
Roughly "overnight" for six years:
http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
- WorldMaker 4y agoPer that own history, the first version "Lisp 1" was written as a project in a single University semester. Compared to the many committee years of, for instance, ALGOL, that is "basically overnight" by comparison.
- lispm 4y agoThe implementation of the first and relatively primitive version took roughly a year. McCarthy had two full-time programmers and six graduate students working for him.