From: Timothy Bosley
Subject: Wanted: Earliest History of Lisp
Date: 
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I am looking for a text/reference on the earliest history
of Lisp. Any pointers greatly appreciated.
From: Marty Hall
Subject: Re: Wanted: Earliest History of Lisp
Date: 
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In <··········@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> ·······@bnr.ca (Timothy Bosley) writes:
>
>I am looking for a text/reference on the earliest history
>of Lisp. Any pointers greatly appreciated.

I have links on my Lisp page to a brief history of Lisp by Brad Miller
and Kent Pittman (from the ALU page) and to the more detailed
Gabriel/Steele article on the history of Lisp. Both in PostScript.

See <http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html#Section6>

						- Marty
(proclaim '(inline skates))
From: Brian Hayes
Subject: Re: Wanted: Earliest History of Lisp
Date: 
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In article <··········@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca>, ·······@bnr.ca (Timothy
Bosley) wrote:

> I am looking for a text/reference on the earliest history
> of Lisp. Any pointers greatly appreciated.

Two starting points:

John McCarthy. "History of LISP." In _History of Programming 
Languages_ (Richard L. Wexelblatt, editor). Association for 
Computing Machinery/Academic Press, New York, N.Y., 1981, 
pages 173-197.

Herbert Stoyan. "Early LISP History (1956-1959)." In 
_Conference Record of the 1984 ACM Symposium on Lisp 
and Functional Programming_, pages 299-310. Association 
for Computing Machinery, New York, N.Y., 1984.

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From: Mark McConnell
Subject: Re: Wanted: Earliest History of Lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <4jerdi$1or@news.cis.okstate.edu>
>I am looking for a text/reference on the earliest history
>of Lisp. Any pointers greatly appreciated.

See the article on "the evolution" in
http://www.stat.ucla.edu:80/develop/lisp/
comp.lang.lisp / 1996 / mar