History Elsewhere on the Web

Early Doc

Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I
John McCarthy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.April 1960 The Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual
McCarthy, Levin, et al; MIT Press, 1962

Looking Back

History of Lisp
John McCarthy, February, 1979

LISP - Notes on its Past and Future - 1980
John McCarthy

Early LISP History (1956-1959)
by Herbert Stoyan University of Erlangen-N"urnberg

The Influence of the Designer on the Design -- J. McCarthy and LISP
by Herbert Stoyan University of Erlangen-N"urnberg

Brief History of the Lisp Language
Extracted from the Common Lisp specification by Kent M Pitman

The Evolution of Lisp
Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel, 1993

Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (PDF)
Richard Gabriel

Other Lisp History Collections

John McCarthy's Home Page
Lisp History and Lisp Articles
Curator: Paul Graham Lisp History
Curator: Herbert Stoyan ALU Lisp History
(no answer from www.lisp.ws)

History of LISP
Software Collection Committee, Computer History Museum
Editor: Paul McJones

Pages about Lisp's history

[New, original recollections eagerly sought]