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LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual UK ed. Edition

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The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language. LISP differs from most programming languages in three important ways. The first way is in the nature of the data.

The LISP language is designed primarily for symbolic data processing used for symbolic calculations in differential and integral calculus, electrical circuit theory, mathematical logic, game playing, and other fields of artificial intelligence. The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language. LISP differs from most programming languages in three important ways. The first way is in the nature of the data. In the LISP language, all data are in the form of symbolic expressions usually referred to as S-expressions, of indefinite length, and which have a branching tree-type of structure, so that significant subexpressions can be readily isolated. In the LISP system, the bulk of the available memory is used for storing S-expressions in the form of list structures. The second distinction is that the LISP language is the source language itself which specifies in what way the S-expressions are to be processed. Third, LISP can interpret and execute programs written in the form of S-expressions. Thus, like machine language, and unlike most other high level languages, it can be used to generate programs for further executions.

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The late John McCarthy was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MIT Press; UK ed. edition (August 15, 1962)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262130114
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262130110
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.9 x 0.26 x 9.8 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018
    Very interesting read into the history of LISP
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2014
    A great read about LISP. Short, concise, and clear - this book made me appreciate LISP on a whole new level.
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2020
    Good book but way above my head.
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2001
    The LISP programming language was invented by John McCarthy in the late 1950s when he was co-director of the MIT artificial intelligence group. Unlike all other programming languages, LISP is also a simple elegant mathematical formalism which could be called a generalized arithmetic. LISP is also unique in that the language and the data are a single unified formalism. To see how far LISP has gone since then, one should read Common LISP: the Language, by Guy Steele. (There are also several excellent tutorial type books.)
    I was an undergraduate student at that time, and as member of the group wrote the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual which was later published as a book by the MIT Press. Today, it is of interest as a historical document only. (The book lists the members of the group at that time, and states that the manual was written by M. Levin)
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  • Wayne Malkin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting for Lisp enthusiasts
    Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2021
    What an interesting historical document. I like having a print copy. The background of how Lisp was and is constructed helped me understand it better, especially when taken in the context of the very limited hardware of the era.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars LISPの聖書
    Reviewed in Japan on September 16, 2019
    これだけでは、わかりにくい
  • Juan M. Gimeno Illa
    5.0 out of 5 stars An impressive little book
    Reviewed in Spain on February 20, 2014
    One little book for one of the greatest achievements of computer programming: the definition of the LISP family of languages.
  • R. Court
    5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2013
    This is a reprint.

    It's a famous book, by the originators of Lisp.

    It might even have something to teach users of modern Lisps, though the hardware details of the original mainframe are less likely to be directly relevant.