Re: [Chicken-users] help on find a lisp paper by John McCarthy

[Erik Falor]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 05:35:32PM +0800, Jinx wrote:
> 
> the Paper is about 2-3 pages long, at least can be  downloaded on
> the internet for free in pdf,
> 
> the content is on how to constuct lisp from several axioms, more in
> a math paper fashion.
> 
> the paper is a late time working paper McCarthy, not the 
> "Recursive Functions of ... Machine, Part I" , there might be some
> co-author.
> 
> I have downloaded the paper one year ago, and cant find it now,
> and after a long search on the web, still get nothing, thats the
> most elegent paper in constructing the lisp in the axiomatic way,
> I am sure I will keep it carefully this time if u could help me
> on finding it

Is what you are looking for similar to Paul Graham's 2002 paper "The
Roots of Lisp" [1], but authored by McCarthy himself?

[1] http://3e8.org/pub/pdf-t1/the-roots-of-lisp.pdf

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Erik Falor
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