A Fortran-Compiled List Processing Language (1959) [pdf]

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This is an amazing "missing link" between IPL and Lisp. Note McCarty's involvement (p. 88), and the incredibly lisp-like function names and functional expression syntax (p. 94++)

So where is "Fortran compiler written in Lisp"? :-)

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html

McCarthy credits FLPL as well. http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

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