{"id":65,"date":"2007-12-26T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2007\/12\/26\/65\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:32:05","slug":"the-revised-maclisp-manual-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2007\/12\/26\/65\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revised MacLisp Manual goes online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s MacLisp played a key role in Lisp history, but its documentation often lagged the system as developers concentrated on adding features and improving performance. Around the time that Lisp machine development eclipsed PDP-10 MacLisp, this final MacLisp document was published:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kent M. Pitman. The Revised MacLisp Manual. &#8220;Saturday Morning Edition&#8221;, M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-295, June 1, 1983.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This has been out of print for many years, but Kent just made available an updated, hypertext <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maclisp.info\/pitmanual\/index.html\">&#8220;Sunday Morning Edition&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in more MacLisp history, including earlier manuals, source code, and more, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/LISP\/maclisp_family\/\">MacLisp family<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/LISP\/\">Lisp website<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/\">Computer History Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 1\/1\/2016:<\/strong> Corrected URL for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/LISP\/maclisp_family\/\">MacLisp family<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT&#8217;s MacLisp played a key role in Lisp history, but its documentation often lagged the system as developers concentrated on adding features and improving performance. Around the time that Lisp machine development eclipsed PDP-10 MacLisp, this final MacLisp document was published: Kent M. Pitman. The Revised MacLisp Manual. &#8220;Saturday Morning Edition&#8221;, M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2007\/12\/26\/65\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Revised MacLisp Manual goes online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lisp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}