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The Mysteries of Lisp -- I: The Way to S-expression Lisp — mentioned by leoc

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:16:09 GMT

Reposting my now very old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502434 : > Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.infor... is probably worth reading if one is seriously interested. (I haven't read much of it myself yet.) McCarthy praised Stoyan's work as better than his own 1979 HOPL paper ( http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html ): "Stoyan's reading of the early LISP documents gives a more accurate picture than my own memories turned out to…

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The Mysteries of Lisp -- I: The Way to S-expression Lisp — mentioned by gjvc

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:29:56 GMT

2015 in the title, 2018 in the linked .pdf file at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.07375.pdf If you're going to be OCD about dates, please have them correct.

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The Mysteries of Lisp -- I: The Way to S-expression Lisp — HN submission

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:49:48 GMT

The Mysteries of Lisp (2015)

106 points; 20 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.