LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual

Good book but way above my head.

Very interesting read into the history of LISP

A great read about LISP. Short, concise, and clear - this book made me appreciate LISP on a whole new level.

The LISP programming language was invented by John McCarthy in the late 1950s when he was co-director of the MIT artificial intelligence group. Unlike all other programming languages, LISP is also a simple elegant mathematical formalism which could be called a generalized arithmetic. LISP is also unique in that the language and the data are a single unified formalism. To see how far LISP has gone since then, one should read Common LISP: the Language, by Guy Steele. (There are also several excellent tutorial type books.)I was an undergraduate student at that time, and as member of the group wrote the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual which was later published as a book by the MIT Press. Today, it is of interest as a historical document only. (The book lists the members of the group at that time, and states that the manual was written by M. Levin)

This is a reprint.It's a famous book, by the originators of Lisp.It might even have something to teach users of modern Lisps, though the hardware details of the original mainframe are less likely to be directly relevant.

Super consigliato molto utile e interessante.

What an interesting historical document. I like having a print copy. The background of how Lisp was and is constructed helped me understand it better, especially when taken in the context of the very limited hardware of the era.

One little book for one of the greatest achievements of computer programming: the definition of the LISP family of languages.

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