On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:01 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com> wrote:


> My guess is that Ivan Sutherland probably qualified back when he still
> programmed ... I mean, after all, he invented the linked list in order to
> implement his thesis program (Sketchpad) in about 1960.
>

1963, which makes it younger than Lisp (McCarthy 1960) and IPL (Newell,
Shaw, Simon 1957), the original list-processing languages.