Lisp Community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago

Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?

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Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?

Lisp Community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago

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How did they implement allocate a new cons cell?

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Probably assembly/assembler, but I’m not sure.

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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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