INSIDE INTERLISP: TWO IMPLEMENTATIONS
Deutsch, L. Peter
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Abstract
Interlisp and Standard Lisp are the only Lisp dialects for which anything like a comprehensive functional specification exists. The Interlisp Virtual Machine (VM) document speaks for itself: only the highlights appear just below.
The non-technical qualities of Interlisp are unique and deserve mention. Interlisp has an exhaustive and well-organized reference manual, which is available on-line to answer questions about particular functions or (to a 1esser, extent) topics. It is only through amazing amounts of labor expended on this manual that the proliferation of features in Interlisp has remained usable.
Publisher: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center