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That document states Bill Gosper wrote one of the first pretty printers, but doesn’t give a date for it.
I would think it is much older, as writing a simple lisp pretty-printer is easy and reading lisp without autoformatting is “less than ideal”.
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That document states Bill Gosper wrote one of the first pretty printers, but doesn’t give a date for it.
I would think it is much older, as writing a simple lisp pretty-printer is easy and reading lisp without autoformatting is “less than ideal”.