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by frobenius
Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:24 pm
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: In Which Language was the first Lisp developed in?
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Re: In Which Language was the first Lisp developed in?

The classic Lisp function names CAR and CDR came from "Contents of the Address Part of Register" and "Contents of the Decrement Part of Register" respectively - IBM terms back in the day. Lisp 1.5 was first implemented on the IBM 704/709/7090 mainframe computers by McCarthy et. a...