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From: ilias <at_n...@pontos.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: LISP - R5RS - John McCarthy
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:04:13 +0300
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i read about scheme.

a 'central document'

http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/r5rs.pdf

what i've noticed:

the name "McCarthy".

i've found this name at one place in the document.

Page 40 -
7.2. Formal semantics
[...]
t -> a, b McCarthy conditional "if t then a else b"
[...]

i know this name.

since a few weeks i know this name.

i think the authors meant: John McCarthy.

inventor/designer of LISP.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/

scheme -> Lisp dialect.

John McCarthy -> inventor/designer of LISP.

Can someone explain me, why

John McCarthy

is in *not* referred in the whole document?

as the inventor/designer of LISP?

e.g.:
page 46
REFERENCES
nothing.

page 2:
Background
Acknowledgements
nothing.

please explain me.