John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs

• john-mccarthy-numerical-facts

  1 3 3.1 Emacs Lisp

  Originally from http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/facts.txt

I made a GitHub repo mirroring it: https://github.com/armcknight/john-mccarthy-numerical-facts

Also saw someone else just added it to one of theirs: https://github.com/bbarclay7/bb-emacs/blob/5858823bb033be113...

• bb-emacs

  1 0 5.6 Emacs Lisp

  My personal emacs settings

I made a GitHub repo mirroring it: https://github.com/armcknight/john-mccarthy-numerical-facts

Also saw someone else just added it to one of theirs: https://github.com/bbarclay7/bb-emacs/blob/5858823bb033be113...

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• vrscript-samples

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• papers-we-love

  69 83,329 3.2 Shell

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Sure he was expecting a practical language and was designing one. Lisp was from day zero a project to implement a real programming language for a computer.

Earlier he experimented with IPL and also list processing programming on Fortran. The plan was to implement a Lisp compiler. At first the Lisp code McCarthy was experimenting with, was manually translated to machine code.

Then came up the idea to use EVAL as a base for an interpreter, which was implemented by manually translating the Lisp code to machine language. Around 1962 then a compiler followed.

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/main/c...

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