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This is McCarthy's paper on Lisp for HOPL (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Programming_Languag... in 1978.

McCarthy praised Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07/29/185/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050617031004/http://www8.infor... above his own "History of Lisp": "Stoyan's reading of the early LISP documents gives a more accurate picture than my own memories turned out to have given." http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/

For HOPL 2 in 1993 Guy Steele and Richard P. Gabriel wrote "The Evolution of Lisp" https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf which continued the story up to about 1992-3.



ACM has Stoyan's "Early LISP history (1956 - 1959)" at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800055.802047




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