Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment
by doall on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:58PM
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John McCarthy is not the one who implemented LISP 1 in IBM 704, but it is Steve Russell.
McCarthy invented the idea of LISP in 1958
https://www-cs.stanford.edu/memoriam/professor-john-mccarthy
that is before the 1960 paper and the LISP 1 manual.
In the 1960 paper, he showed that LISP can be implemented in just few primitives that showed its purity of LISP. Of course you can develop a non pure version of LISP which is more practical.
The Lisp 1 Programmer's Manual is dated 1960 and ... bears McCarthy's name.
The paper you cited has a section titled The LISP Programming System which says:
"The LISP programming system is a system for using the IBM 704 computer to compute with symbolic information in the form of S-expressions."
The Programmer's Manual's Preface begins:
"LISP 1 is a programming system for the IBM 704 for computing with symbolic expressions."
Looks like they are about exactly the same thing to me: an implementation for a specific computer (IBM 704), described in the same year by the same author, with an a nearly identical sentence in the intro.