Tim Hart and Mike Levin at MIT created the first LISP compiler, in LISP, in 1962; the compiler itself was compiled by running Russell’s LISP interpreter on the compiler source code. Compiled ...

I’ve always wondered why there aren’t more compilers targeting LISP source code. The syntax is confusing for most, but the interpreters are fantastically compact and easy to write.

The source code of every Infocom text adventure game has been uploaded to code-sharing repository GitHub, ... The games were written in the LISP-esque "Zork Implementation Language," or ZIL, ...

What MIT has made available is the source code from Zork as it existed around 1977, at a time when it was being distributed to universities around the US. For purely educational purposes, obviously.

Bel proves LISP still has value in 2019. Bel proves LISP still has value in 2019. Skip to content. ... Although Graham has published a guide to the language, along with some source code, ...