sck@wucs1.wustl.edu (Stan C. Kwasny) (02/23/90)
I once saw a diagram that gave the genealogy of the lisp family of languages. I remember it from some years ago, but was impressed with how many different dialects there were and how many strains of development were going on in parallel. I have looked at the McCarthy article in SIGPLAN from 1978 and everywhere else I thought I might have seen it, but cannot find it. Has anyone done a current picture showing the genealogy of lisp? The one I remember may have been part of a vendor's presentation, but certainly didn't show the present threads of scheme and CL. Perhaps one exists in a textbook or historical article somewhere. My reason for asking is I would like to use it in a class to convey how much effort goes into developing a mature language, especially when there have been 30 years to think about it. Thank you. Stan C. Kwasny Department of Computer Science Washington University Campus Box 1045, Bryan 509 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 sck@wucs1.wustl.edu (314) 889-6123
maner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner) (02/26/90)
Stan Kwasny writes: > Has anyone done a current picture showing the genealogy of lisp? Richard Wexelblat, _History of Programming Languages_, has a fairly complete geneaology for many languages (including Lisp) inside the front cover. It starts with Lisp(1), ends with LPL, and shows IPL II and IPL V as related languages. -- InterNet maner@andy.bgsu.edu (129.1.1.2) | BGSU, Comp Science Dept UUCP ... ! osu-cis ! bgsuvax ! maner | Bowling Green, OH 43403 BITNet MANER@BGSUOPIE | 419/372-2337 Secretary Relays @relay.cs.net, @nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | FAX is available - call