Subject: Re: A Philosophical Diversion From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1998/10/11 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3117132420087676@naggum.no> * Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> | That is the standard attitude on lisp, and it was formed when the | professors who taught the current generation of programmers last looked | at it. Say, around Lisp 1.5. | | At that time it was basically correct to say "Lisp was a general purpose | language only in the sense that a Turing machine is." Lisp was a purely | interpretive language in a day when every cpu cycle cost $$ and lisp | programs took lots of RAM in a day when 32K was a HUGE computer (of | course that was 36-bit words, not bytes). LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual, ISBN 0-262-13011-4. Table of Contents: ... APPENDIX B The LISP Interpreter APPENDIX C The LISP Assembly Program (LAP) APPENDIX D The LSIP Compiler ... date of publication: 1962-08-17. it cost USD 8.95 when I bought my copy at the MIT Book Store a few years ago. you're advised to read it before you make claims about LISP 1.5. #:Erik