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by lispm 2795 days ago
What does it have to do with him?

The basic idea comes actually from Interlisp and Warren Teitelman‘s ‚Conversational Lisp‘ and its FOR macro.

The main purpose of LOOP is to question ones assumption what is Lispy and what not. ;-)
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gumby 2795 days ago
Pretty sure Dick wrote LOOP. There was an ai working paper on the subject by him iirc too. Teitelman had left mit by the time I got there, though I later got to deal with DWIM (which seems to have infected web browsers and npm etc :-( ) at PARC. one great titlemanism was the addition of ] to Interlisp.
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lispm 2795 days ago
Are you sure you are not mixing this up with the Series system, where Richard Waters wrote a bunch of papers on?

The paper from 1980 on 'LOOP Iteration Macro' by Burke&Moon does not mention him at all.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a087372.pdf

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gumby 2794 days ago
Ha, that's a funny scan! I have a paper copy of that memo someplace.

Yeah, I might be misremembering.

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