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wensing
on July 21, 2012
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Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969
Looks like it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519747
and other comments verify.
gruseom
on July 21, 2012
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I noticed that too, but Steve Russell wrote the first LISP interpreter on the IBM 704 in 1959 (
http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HaCAR_CDR.html#Steve
). The IBM 7094 came out in 1962 (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090
). So I'm betting that our russell isn't Steve. He's a perfectly good russell nonetheless :)
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