Linux/Unix Acronyms...Answered by self!!!

[Richard R. Malloy]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Rather than answer the question, I should mention that LISP has been
> around a long time (before FORTRAN, before COBOL, before
> computers). I don't have my sources here, but from memory, LISP was
> actually invented back in the 1930s. A line of text is nothing more than a
> list of words.
>

  I believe that LISP is based on the lambda calculus which was invented
(discovered)
by Alonzo Church in the 1930's. He of the Church-Turing thesis and all that..


On 7 Mar 00, at 11:17, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

>
> > Regarding Emacs and Lisp, does anyone know what the delay time is between
> > backups and is it cutomizable? And, what kind of lists would a LISP user be
> > listing in an artificial intelligence lab?
>
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
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