Michigan Terminal System - Manuals - MTS Volume 08: LISP and SLIP in MTS

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MTS Manual is a series of volumes that describe in detail the facilities provided by the Michigan Terminal System. This volume contains the language descriptions of the two major list-processing languages that are supported in MTS, namely, LISP and SLIP. LISP is a programming language designed mainly for list-processing applications. The principal applications have been in artificial intelligence research. LISP was originally developed by J. McCarthy in the early 1960s as a formal language based on Church’s lambda calculus. SLIP (Symmetric List Processor) is a set of subroutines to allow list structures to be easily built and maintained in higher-level languages that do not have list-processing capabilities (e.g., FORTRAN).

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