swap() macro (LISP & Algol)

[Dave Haynie]

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>>	What about LISP? Or is LISP older than Algol?
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> LISP and Pascal are both descendants of Algol 60.
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> 					AMBAR

LISP a descendent of Algol 60?!!?!  The earliest ancestor of LISP I've
heard of is IPL, which was developed by Newell, Shaw, and Simon at
Carnegie-Mellon in the fifties.  IPL stands for Information Processing
Language.  LISP itself was invented by John McCarthy (at MIT, I believe)
and was first formally described in papers presented in 1960 and 1961.  The 
first progamming guide on LISP was "LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual" published
in 1961.  The first AI Language I've heard of being based on Algol at
all is SAIL, which was presented in a paper sometime around 1972.

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Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

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