NIL (programming language)
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This article is about the programming language. For other uses, see Nil.
New Implementation of LISP (NIL) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 1970s, and intended to be the successor to the language Maclisp.[1] It is a 32-bit implementation,[2] and was in part a response to Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) VAX computer. The project was headed by Jon L White,[3] with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp while fixing many of its problems.
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Paradigms | Multiparadigm: functional, procedural |
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Family | Lisp |
Designed by | Jon L White |
Developers | Jon L White, Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel |
First appeared | 1979; 45 years ago (1979) |
Typing discipline | dynamic, strong |
Implementation language | VAX assembly |
Platform | VAX |
OS | VAX/VMS |
Influenced by | |
Lisp, Maclisp | |
Influenced | |
Common Lisp,[1] T |
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