Maclisp

<p>Maclisp (or MACLISP, sometimes styled MacLisp or MacLISP) is a <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a>, a <a href="/facts/Dialect_(computing)/cWTYbgWa">dialect</a> of the language <a href="/facts/Lisp_(programming_language)/xJHA3CrX">Lisp</a>. It originated at the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>'s (MIT) <a href="/facts/Project_MAC/mTg66jb9">Project MAC</a> (from which it derived its prefix) in the late 1960s and was based on Lisp 1.5. <a href="/facts/Richard_Greenblatt_(programmer)/FBv70hN7">Richard Greenblatt</a> was the main developer of the original codebase for the <a href="/facts/PDP-6/dlvBVlr8">PDP-6</a>; Jon L. White was responsible for its later maintenance and development.  The name <i>Maclisp</i> began being used in the early 1970s to distinguish it from other <a href="/facts/Fork_(software_development)/D6khxhpr">forks</a> of PDP-6 Lisp, notably <a href="/facts/BBN_Lisp/LAdpCHrH">BBN Lisp</a>.
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Maclisp