Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kinnersley From: kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: First Recursive Language. Message-ID: <27292.275f9546@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 7 Dec 90 19:12:38 GMT References: <319@rangkom.MY> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 7 According to a historical account of the development of LISP by McCarthy, he was partially motivated by hearing an account of the IPL2 programming language in the summer of 1956. IPL2 was already a recursive list- processing language. -- --Bill Kinnersley