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Re:An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Ex... by adrian_b on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:48PM (#45858481)
Besides this first report (AIM-001), some of the reports following it in the next months are at least as important, by introducing other essential features of LISP and of many later languages:

1958-10: AIM-003 (the special form "maplist", i.e. a kind of "forall" iteration)

1958-10: AIM-004 (anonymous function definitions using "lambda"; the special form "select", which already at that early date had better syntax and semantics than the "switch" or "case" statements of later languages; the special form "search")

1959-03-13: AIM-008 (the special form "quote"; the special form "label", for defining anonymous recursive functions; also the special forms "and" and "or", a.k.a. McCarthy AND and McCarthy OR, inherited by many languages, including C)

Re:An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Ex... by kant2002 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @01:44PM (#45858906)
Does anybody attempt to re-implment each variant of pre-LISP described in these reports? Even if it just for educational/historical purposes?
Re:An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Ex... by anthk on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:10PM (#45859102)