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The original AI memos at MIT show almost step-by-step how McCarthy developed Lisp. Here's the first, which includes symbolic differentiation as an example: http
by pmcjones 12y ago
The original AI memos at MIT show almost step-by-step how McCarthy developed Lisp. Here's the first, which includes symbolic differentiation as an example: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/AIM-001.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/AIM-00... . For the rest, skip down to the Documentation and Papers section of http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_family/#LISP_I_and_LISP_1.5_for_IBM_704,_709,_7090_ http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fam... .