NIL (programming language)
| Nil | |
|---|---|
| Paradigms | Multiparadigm: functional, procedural |
| Family | Lisp |
| Designed by | Jon L White |
| Developers | Jon L White, Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel |
| First appeared | 1979 |
| Typing discipline | dynamic, strong |
| Implementation language | VAX assembly |
| Platform | VAX |
| OS | VAX/VMS |
| Influenced by | |
| Lisp, Maclisp | |
| Influenced | |
| Common Lisp, T | |
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. It is a 32-bit implementation, and was in part a response to Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) VAX computer. The project was headed by Jon L White, with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp while fixing many of its problems.