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Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation (1960) [pdf]
- capableweb 3y agoFull title is "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I" but it didn't fit. This is the paper that conceived LISP as we kno(/e)w it, and was published in Communications of the ACM.
- chmaynard 3y agoAccording to Algolia, this particular link to John McCarthy's seminal paper on LISP has not appeared on HN previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=jmc.stanford.edu https://hn.algolia.com/?q=jmc.stanford.edu Looks like this is a recently created website: http://jmc.stanford.edu/project-jmc-team.html http://jmc.stanford.edu/project-jmc-team.html Of course, the paper has been posted many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Recursive%20Functions%20of%20Symbolic%20Expressions&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...