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Dialect of Lisp
New Implementation of LISP (NIL) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 1970s, and intended to be the successor to the language Maclisp. It is a 32-bit implementation, and was in part a response to Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) VAX computer. The project was headed by Jon L White, with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp while fixing many of its problems. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: NIL (programming language)A 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Le Comte de Monte-CristoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The NIL distributed systems programming languageCited 16 times
- Go sideways: MaclispA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Franz LispA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
Le Comte de Monte-CristoAlexandre Dumas · 1830
Learn Objective-C for Java developersJames Bucanek · 2009
Introduction to legal studiesVincent Kazmierski · 2010
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