MLisp

The topic of MLisp has been the subject of interest and debate for a long time. From its origins to the present day, MLisp has played a significant role in various aspects of society. In order to better understand this topic, it is essential to delve into its history, its implications and its impact in different contexts. In this article, different perspectives on MLisp will be addressed, with the purpose of offering a comprehensive vision that allows readers to acquire a more complete and enriching understanding of this topic.
"MLisp" is also another name for Mocklisp, a stripped-down version of Lisp used as an extension language in Gosling Emacs.

MLISP is a variant of Lisp with an Algol-like syntax based on M-Expressions, which were the function syntax in the original description of Lisp by John McCarthy. McCarthy's M-expressions were never implemented in an exact form.[1]

MLISP was first implemented for the IBM 360 by Horace Enea and then reimplemented for the PDP 10 by David Canfield Smith. This second implementation also supported a special kind of lambdas ("FEXPR"), which do not evaluate their arguments. As in Lisp-1 or Scheme, there was a single namespace for variables and functions.[2]

While MLISP was just a preprocessor with an alternative, more reader-friendly syntax for Lisp, the descendant MLISP 2 introduced new concepts:[3]

MLISP2 was called a transitional language by the authors. Larry Tesler improved the pattern matching system to implement a successor language called LISP70, which was only completed to a preliminary version. Though this path of LISP evolution is widely neglected, it resembles some features, later found in ML or Scheme.[5]

M-LISP (MetaLISP) by Robert Muller is an unrelated language from 1989–1992. It was "a hybrid of M-expression LISP and Scheme".[6][7]

See also

There have been multiple implementations of infix-notation Lisps and Lisp-like or Lisp-derived languages. Some notable examples include:

References

  1. ^ Enea, Horace (1968) MLISP CS-TR-68-92.pdf
  2. ^ Smith, David Canfield (1970) MLISP USERS' MANUAL Smith-MLISP-AIM-84.pdf (recommended first)
  3. ^ Smith, David Canfield and Enea, Horace J. (1973) MLISP 2 CS-TR-73-356.pdf
  4. ^ Smith, David Canfield and Enea, Horace J. (1973) Backtracking in MLISP2: an efficient backtracking method for LISP 074.pdf
  5. ^ Tesler, Lawrence G., Smith, David Canfield and Enea, Horace J. (1973) The LISP70 pattern matching system 073.pdf
  6. ^ Muller, Robert (October 1992). "M-LISP: a representation-independent dialect of LISP with reduction semantics". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 14 (4): 589–616. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.40.4948. doi:10.1145/133233.133254.
  7. ^ Muller, Robert (1989). MetaLISP: a representation independent dialect of LISP with reduction semantics (PhD thesis).
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