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Re: Lisp books over Indian food
- To: Steve Witham <http://www.tiac.net/~sw>
- Subject: Re: Lisp books over Indian food
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Tue Jul 2 20:24:51 EDT 2002
- In-Reply-To: <http://www./~f05101001b947a0cf252d[137.103.86.81]>
- Keywords: Lisp, Lisp
- References: <3http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~D1E71C0.30807> <http://www./~f05101001b947a0cf252d[137.103.86.81]>
Groovy. Thanks for the tid-bit!
> From: Steve Witham <http://www.tiac.net/~sw>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:33:27 -0400
>
> You guys were talking about short Scheme books at dinner the
> other night. I finally remembered the book I read in 1972 or
> so: "Lisp 1.5 Primer" by Clark Weismann, 1967. I remember the
> listing of the EvalQuote interpreter in one appendix...
>
> Googling it brings up "Form & Content in Computer Science" by
> Minsky, and a history of Lisp by McCarthy, where he says:
>
> My desire for an algebraic list processing language for artificial
> intelligence work on the IBM 704 computer arose in the summer of 1956
> during the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial
> Intelligence which was the first organized study of AI.
>
> (sorry about the html) This was August 1956, the month I was born.
>
> --Steve
> --
> Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
> Steve's corollary: You can't judge a group by a typical member.