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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: First Recursive Language.
Message-ID: <446@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 90 17:02:09 GMT
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The first fully recursive language I used was ALGOL on a
Burroughs B-5500.  This machine was designed from the ground up
to support ALGOL around 1960 (it also had virtual memory years
before IBM invented thrashing and called it VM).

I don't know whether this predates LISP or not.

Bill.
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