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Dialect of Lisp programming language

Maclisp is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. It originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Project MAC in the late 1960s and was based on Lisp 1.5. Richard Greenblatt was the main developer of the original codebase for the PDP-6; Jon L. White was responsible for its later maintenance and development. The name Maclisp began being used in the early 1970s to distinguish it from other forks of PDP-6 Lisp, notably BBN Lisp. Wikipedia →

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📕The revised Maclisp manualKent M. Pitman · 1983
📕MACLISP reference manual. · 1975
The Design of interpreters, compilers, and editors for augmented transition networksLeonard Bolc · 1983

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