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LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual - by John McCarthy & Paul W Abrahams & Daniel J Edwards (Paperback)

Name: LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual - by John McCarthy & Paul W Abrahams & Daniel J Edwards (Paperback)
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The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language.
About the Author: The late John McCarthy was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.
112 Pages
Computers, Languages

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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.

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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.

About the Author

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

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.93 Inches (H) x 7.04 Inches (W) x .31 Inches (D)

Weight: .54 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 112

Genre: Computers

Sub-Genre: Languages

Publisher: MIT Press

Theme: General

Format: Paperback

Author: John McCarthy & Paul W Abrahams & Daniel J Edwards

Language: English

Street Date: August 15, 1962

TCIN: 1013617795

UPC: 9780262130110

Item Number (DPCI): 247-19-5066

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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