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LISP 1.5 Primer

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LISP 1.5 Primer

LISP 1.5 Primer by Clark Weissman
English | Jan. 31, 1967 | ISBN: 0822110504 | 243 Pages | PDF | 7 MB

The original LISP programming system was implemented at M.1.T.l based upon a paper by John McCarthy, "~ecursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine," which was published in Communications of the ACM, April 1960. Since then, numerous other LISP systems have been implemented on a variety of computers. All these systems are based upon the formal LISP language; however, they do possess differences in implementation brought about by machine differences and technological advances in efficient machine utilization. Earlier systems used interpreters lor evaluating LISP expressions; more recent systems compile machine code to perfom the desired symbolic manipulations. Other technological innovations, such as time-sharing operating systems, have also influenced the outward, user-view of LISP systems. To transcend these and other differences between LISP systems, various pedagogical devices are used in this manual. Hopefully, these devices will approximate features available with specific LISP implementations. They include: a compiler-based LISP 1.5 system, an EVALQUOTE supervisor, a full complement of character handling primitives, MACRO capability, and a canonical form for input and output of numbers, atoms, and symbolic expressions.