Guy L. Steele, Jr.
Guy L. Steele, Jr. helped develop Common Lisp documentation. These manuals preserve a shared programming-language effort important to the history of AI tools. Steele and Scott Fahlman were associated with an August 1981 draft reference manual. It forms part of the shared work leading to Common Lisp documentation. Steele published Common Lisp: the Language in 1984. Scott Fahlman, Richard Gabriel, David Moon and Daniel Weinreb also contributed to the book.
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Timeline
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1981
Early language documentation
Steele and Scott Fahlman were associated with an August 1981 draft reference manual. It forms part of the shared work leading to Common Lisp documentation.
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1984
Common Lisp: the Language
Steele published Common Lisp: the Language in 1984. Scott Fahlman, Richard Gabriel, David Moon and Daniel Weinreb also contributed to the book.
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1990
A revised language account
The second edition of Common Lisp: the Language appeared in 1990.
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1990
Research recognition
AAAI elected Guy L. Steele, Jr. as a Fellow in 1990.
Sources and credits
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