Re: First Recursive Language.

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From: Bill Kinnersley
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 19:12

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According to a historical account of the development of LISP by McCarthy,
he was partially motivated by hearing an account of the IPL2 programming
language in the summer of 1956.  IPL2 was already a recursive list-
processing language.

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--Bill Kinnersley

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From: kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
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Subject: Re: First Recursive Language.
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