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* Lisp before computers
@ 2019-05-11  1:45 Emanuel Berg
  2019-05-11  7:41 ` tomas
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2019-05-11  1:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs
  Cc: Henk Pelgrom, Ingemar Holmgren, Greger Eriksson, Kiki Alfredsson

When do you think the very first person thought
of a Lisp syntax with a REPL, and had it
execute stuff, in his brain or maybe with wood
and other items he assembled in his cave
or hut?

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* Re: Lisp before computers
  2019-05-11  1:45 Lisp before computers Emanuel Berg
@ 2019-05-11  7:41 ` tomas
  2019-05-11 23:12   ` Emanuel Berg
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From: tomas @ 2019-05-11  7:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 03:45:09AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> When do you think the very first person thought
> of a Lisp syntax with a REPL, and had it
> execute stuff, in his brain or maybe with wood
> and other items he assembled in his cave
> or hut?

Why speculate, when the "very first person(s)" write about it?

  http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

Enjoy
-- t

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* Re: Lisp before computers
  2019-05-11  7:41 ` tomas
@ 2019-05-11 23:12   ` Emanuel Berg
  2019-05-13  9:24     ` Van L
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Emanuel Berg @ 2019-05-11 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

tomas wrote:

> Why speculate, when the "very first
> person(s)" write about it?
>
>   http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

The very first person didn't write about it.
But thanks for the PDF.

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* Re: Lisp before computers
  2019-05-11 23:12   ` Emanuel Berg
@ 2019-05-13  9:24     ` Van L
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From: Van L @ 2019-05-13  9:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Emanuel Berg writes:

> The very first person didn't write about it.

That was the community's standardization process
for the Common Noun (1) and not the Common Lisp.

  (1) https://youtu.be/pKIfpj1H3EA

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