Talk:NIL (programming language)

This page needs more names of some of the other people who worked for Joel Moses and did a lot of work on this project. I only say that because I worked with some of those people and I came to this page because I am trying to remember some of the names.

Well, there's myself (Bob Kerns, RWK) and Rick Bryan (RLB). We did the initial implementation of the runtime.

Jonathan Rees cites us here: https://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/

"John L. White, Rick Bryan, and Bob Kerns - taught JAR the craft of Lisp implementation:

and

"George Carrette didn't join NIL until long after I left. The 'soul' of NIL in my mind was John L White, Rick Bryan, and Bob Kerns. George and Glenn Burke (not sure of the timing) picked up the pieces after the original crew drifted away."

(Jonathan Rees (JAR) was my office mate while he was at MIT.)

Bob Kerns (talk) 02:31, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102719729 Sites:

NIL ("New Implementation of Lisp") is a dialect of Lisp. See: Glenn S. Burke, George J. Carrette, and Christopher R. Eliot. NIL Reference Manual corresponding to Release 0.286. Report MIT/LCS/TR-311, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 1984.

There were actual shipped releases of NIL, that were created by people Joel Moses hired in 1982. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.1.134.64 (talk) 00:45, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]