Computers Simulate Human Experts - Interlisp Article

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pixel...@gmail.com

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Jan 1, 2026, 11:20:05 PM (11 days ago) Jan 1
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Hello, 

I came across this article trawling the internet, I'm on my phone so I can't tell so easily if we have this one already (I did poke through the bibliography on the website) but I thought it would put it here in case we don't.

- Ryan
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Paolo Amoroso

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Jan 2, 2026, 4:59:09 AM (10 days ago) Jan 2
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Ryan Burnside

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Jan 2, 2026, 7:40:18 AM (10 days ago) Jan 2
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I see you've already covered it very well! 

I didn't think to search this mailing list ...

These kinds of concrete artifacts help cement the importance of Interlisp for people trying to understand the era.

There is more Interlisp data than I thought but it seems that many references don't really understand the differences between implementations and vendors which are a world apart. It really helps give people an idea of the Tower of Babel situation leading to a "Common Lisp".


By today's standards it would be like calling C#, C++, D, and Java "C". 

I'm kind of squinting into my phone right now as I've got trains blasting their horns at 5:00 a.m. but it would be nice to have these collected and referenced (maybe we do).

Ryan

Nick Briggs

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Jan 2, 2026, 2:53:20 PM (10 days ago) Jan 2
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I didn't see those articles when I looked in Zotero -- perhaps I'm not searching it correctly.  Could you check?

Cheers,
Nick


Paolo Amoroso

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Jan 2, 2026, 3:10:50 PM (10 days ago) Jan 2
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I checked and I confirm none of the Mini-Micro Systems articles are in Zotero.


Herb Jellinek

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Jan 2, 2026, 5:00:36 PM (10 days ago) Jan 2
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It's easy to add documents to the Interlisp bibliography.  Eleanor Young wrote the Interlisp Bibliography Intake Guide, which begins "I have something I think belongs in the Interlisp Bibliography!"

Skip down to It definitely belongs! How do I add it? and follow the bouncing cursor.

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Paolo Amoroso

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Jan 3, 2026, 7:18:58 AM (9 days ago) Jan 3
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I submitted all the Mini-Micro Systems articles for inclusion in the bibliography.

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