Last updated 1996.

Ah, didn't check that.

Nevertheless, a useful starting page to begin one's research from.

Somebody needs to create a similar list for current times. Maybe the co-author of "Elements of Programming" and preserver of "Software History" artifacts, named Paul McJones would be the right person? ;-)

The link dump includes scans of the source code and a link to this free-to-read paper on the history of the Lisp 2 project: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8267589 (I’m the author).

And here's an English translation of the History chapter from Stoyan's 1980 book _LISP-Anwendungsgebiete, Grundbegriffe, Geschichte_ [LISP Application, Basic Concepts, History]: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/S...

Thanks. Even though I'm originally from Europe, the book has ended up somewhat focused on what happened on the continent where I now live. It's something I'm planning to fix for a potential second edition.

Really nice of you to share it, thank you.

I will read them over the weekend.

Here are some bibliographies, including an extensive (but old) one by Herbert Stoyan. Apologies for the rough formatting of them: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/resour...

And it's worth pointing out here that the book itself is now freely available: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/542865

I should have given this link also: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...

Maybe I’m missing something, but that webpage only seems to provide a PDF containing the beginning of the book (up through the Preface). Perhaps you need a ACM Digital Library Premium subscription to access the entire book?

Sigh -- they keep changing the rules. I think you have to have a free ACM account. If you send me an email (see my home page in my profile), I'll send you a PDF.

I appreciate your offer, but there’s no need. I subsequently found a copy here:

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...

This URL gives a choice of format: online, purchase hardcopy, or download PDF (requires free account): https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/28594

Was your work on the 6502 perhaps in the 70s?

This was after and before the work on the time travel chip

How is it possible to be in the breach for someone who never had a prosper account?

I had this one in the 1950s: https://www.theoldrobots.com/Ideal.html

Information about other implementations of BCPL:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL/