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From: schales@cs.tamu.edu (Douglas Lee Schales)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: First Recursive Language.
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Date: 2 Dec 90 22:51:23 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.005049.25290@mp.cs.niu.edu> t901908@mp.cs.niu.edu (Joe Adamo) writes:
>In article <7571@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600dt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dave Goggin) writes:
>>In article <319@rangkom.MY> napi@rangkom.MY (Mohd Hanafiah b. Abdullah) writes:
>>
>>that LISP had recursion as ist original specs.  In
>I know that this has been a long going discussion, but I'm pretty sure 
>assembly/370 supports recursion.  How old is assembly language?
>

LISP: Late 1950's (1958?)
IBM 360 introduced: 1964

Let's not get ridiculous in the interpretation of the question.  If we take
it to the assembly level, then the IBM 704, on which LISP was originally
written, could be said to support recursion.

Doug.
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Douglas Lee Schales
schales@cs.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University
Dept. of Computer Science


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