The Evolution of Lisp

The Evolution of Lisp (1993)

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by Guy L. Steele , Jr. , Richard P. Gabriel

Venue:	ACM SIGPLAN Notices
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TITLE	The evolution of Lisp	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Guy L. Steele	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Corporation	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	245 First Street; Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Richard P. Gabriel	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Lucid, Inc.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	707 Laurel Street; Menlo Park, California 94025	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	Lisp is the world's greatest programming language---or so its proponents think. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Overall, the evolution of Lisp has been guided more by institutional rivalry, one-upsmanship, and the glee born of technical cleverness that is characteristic of the "hacker culture " than by sober assessments of technical requirements. Nevertheless this process has eventually produced both an industrialstrength programming language, messy but powerful, and a technically pure dialect, small but powerful, that is suitable for use by programming-language theoreticians. We pick up where McCarthy's paper in the first HOPL conference left off. We trace the development chronologically from the era of the PDP-6, through the heyday of Interlisp and MacLisp, past the ascension and decline of special purpose Lisp machines, to the present era of standardization activities. We then examine the technical evolution of a few representative language features, including both some notable successes and some notable failures, that illuminate design issues that distinguish Lisp from other	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
YEAR	1993	INFERENCE
VENUE	History of Programming Languages	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	231--270	INFERENCE
VOLUME	28	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	36 found	ParsCit 1.0