From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tih at hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:50:50 +0100 Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus! In-Reply-To: (Clem Cole's message of "Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:03:09 -0500") References: Message-ID: Clem Cole writes: > I suspect when this was sent out to wherever I picked it up a few > years ago, the code had been changed to be 'pure F4' ;-) The version I have is the one that was floating around the SINTRAN environment at the Norwegian Institute of Technology when I was there back in the eighties. I don't know where it originally came from, but it was printed in the in-house information publication RUN-NYTT in 1982. It's on page 9 of this issue: https://folk.ntnu.no/klv/IT-historie-ntnu/Run-nytt-1977-93/run-nytt-1-1982.pdf The comment at the top of the version you posted is actually my own translation of the text introducing the printed program text. -tih -- Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay