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History of LISP
Paul McJones, editor
paul@mcjones.org
http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/
Abstract
The goal of this project is to collect, preserve, and present source code, design documents, and other materials concerning the original LISP I/1.5 system, and as many of its follow-ons as possible. LISP was one of the earliest high-level programming languages and introduced many ideas such as garbage collection, recursive functions, symbolic expressions, and dynamic type-checking; it is still in use. This is a project of the Computer History Museum's Software Preservation Group. The editor appreciates comments, suggestions, and donations of additional materials.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- LISP 1.5 family
- Other LISP 1.5 implementations
- LISP 1.5 for Univac M-460
- LISP 1.5 for AN/FSQ-32/V
- MBLISP (Martin Baltimore)
- LISP 1.5 for Univac 1108
- LISP 2 family
- Interlisp family
- MacLisp family
- Stanford LISP 1.6 family
- IBM 360/370 LISP family
- Standard LISP family
- Scheme family
- VLISP
- Le_Lisp
- UtiLisp
- Common Lisp family
- EuLisp
- ISLISP
- Other Lisps
- Embedded Lisps
- Emacs Lisp
- LISP Shell (Yale)
- Tinylisp (DEC SRC)
- XLISP [To be supplied]
- Parallel Lisps
- Other resources for the history of LISP
Acknowledgements
This project is dedicated to Professor Doctor Herbert Stoyan, who has dedicated many years to tracing the development of Lisp from its birth in John McCarthy's project at M.I.T. through its world-wide diaspora, and who very generously donated his Lisp archives to the Computer History Museum: the Herbert Stoyan Collection on LISP Programming, Lot Number X5687.2010.
Many other people contributed information, manuals, and software:
- Bob Abeles, Paul W. Abrahams, John R. Allen, Jeff Barnett, Bruce G. Baumgart, Alan Bawden, Fred Blair, Robert Brayton, Daniel G. Bobrow, Phil Budne, Howard I. Cannon, Jérôme Chailloux, Rich Cornwell, L. Peter Deutsch, Deborah Douglas, Daniel J. Edwards, John R. Ellis, Edward Feigenbaum, Robert R. Fenichel, Tayssir John Gabbour, Richard P. Gabriel, Richard Greenblatt, Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas, Jack Harper, Timothy P. Hart, Zane H. Healy, Charles L. Hedrick, Tom Knight, Al Kossow, Alan Kotok, Paco Linux, Emílio C. Lopes, Klim Maling, Larry Masinter, J.P. Massar, Blake McBride, John McCarthy, Harold V. McIntosh, Jim Meehan, The MIT Press, David A. Moon, Joel Moses, Daniel L. Murphy, Marvin L. Minsky, Eric Norman, Julian Padget, Chris Perdue, Kent M. Pitman, Lynn H. Quam, Thomas C. Rindfleisch, SDF Public Access UNIX System (TWENEX.ORG), Stephen R. Russell, Robert A. Saunders, Raymundo Segovia, Tim Shoppa, Olin Sibert, Guy L. Steele Jr., Bob Supnik, Tetsuro Tanaka, Graham Toal, David Touretzky, Björn Victor, Eiiti Wada, Clark Weissman, JonL White, and Robert Yates.