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Reading McCarthy's April 1960 description and definition of LISP for the IBM-704, including what it was designed to be good at.
This was apropos https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha/ my gamedev map editor efforts, where I had said something that could only loosely said to have been said in that paper, see this mastodon thread: https://gamerplus.org/@[email protected]/115318437903028491
The paper: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf
By Reading McCarthy's April 1960 description and definition of LISP for the IBM-704, including what it was designed to be good at.
This was apropos https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha/ my gamedev map editor efforts, where I had said something that could only loosely said to have been said in that paper, see this mastodon thread: https://gamerplus.org/@[email protected]/115318437903028491
The paper: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf