Inter Lisp

From The FreeOnLineDictionaryOfComputing:

A dialect of the LispLanguage developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of {BBN-Lisp}. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently supported by {Xerox PARC} [XeroxParc].

Interlisp was once one of two main branches of LISP (the other being {MacLisp}). In 1981 {CommonLisp} was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is {DynamicallyScoped} [uses DynamicScoping]. NLAMBDA functions do not evaluate their arguments. Any function could be called with optional arguments.

["Interlisp Programming Manual", W. Teitelman, TR, Xerox Rec Ctr 1975].

I recommend ["INTERLISP : the language and its usage", S.H. Kaisler, John Wiley & Sons, 1986], sometimes titled just "INTERLISP".

Also see TheEvolutionOfLisp.

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