From: gilbert
Subject: Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual at: http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/mccarthy.html
Date: 
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http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/mccarthy.html
From: Kenny Tilton
Subject: Re: Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual at: http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/mccarthy.html
Date: 
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gilbert wrote:
> http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/mccarthy.html

cool. speaking of punch cards:

"The reading of doublets is normally terminated by the word STOP. If 
parentheses do not count out, STOP will appear to be inside an 
S-expression and will not be recognized as such. To prevent reading from 
continuing indefinitely, each packet should end with STOP followed by a 
large number of right parentheses. An unpaired right parenthesis will 
cause a read error and terminate reading. "

thems were the days.

:)



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From: Paolo Amoroso
Subject: Re: Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual at: http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/mccarthy.html
Date: 
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[followup to comp.lang.lisp only]

On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 03:15:29 GMT, Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> gilbert wrote:
> > http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/mccarthy.html
> 
> cool. speaking of punch cards:

This section of the book:

  D. THE LISP COMPILER
  http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/node40.html

is even cooler, because it debunks the "lisp is interpreted, hence slow"
myth.


Paolo
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