LISP 1.5 programmer's manual / the Computation Center and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; John McCarthy ... [et al. ; written by Michael I. Levin].
Contributor(s): Levin, Michael I
| McCarthy, John | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology [publisher.].
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 1985Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [1962]Description: 1 PDF (vi, 106 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262287722.Subject(s): LISP (Computer program language)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleOnline resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Summary: 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.
"The over-all design of the LISP Programming System is the work of John McCarthy and is based on his paper 'Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine' which was published in Communications of the ACM, April 1960"--Pref.
"The 'LISP 1 Programmer's Manual', March 1, 1960, was written by Phyllis A. Fox."--Pref.
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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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