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{{Short description|Dialect of Lisp}}

{{About|the programming language|other uses|Nil (disambiguation){{!}}Nil}}

{{Infobox programming language

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|programming language = [[VAX]] [[Assembly language|assembly]]

|discontinued = Yes

|platform = [[PDP-6]], [[PDP-10VAX]]

|operating system = [[TOPS-10]], [[Incompatible Timesharing SystemOpenVMS|ITSVAX/VMS]]

|license =

|file ext =

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|last=Gabriel

|first=Richard P.

|title=Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems

|publisher=[[MIT Press]]; Computer Systems Series

|url=http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/Timrep.pdf

|date=May 1985

|isbn=978-0-262-07093-5

|lccn=85015161

|lccn=85015161}}<!-- xiv, 285 p.; 23 cm. Cambridge, Mass. --></ref> and was in part a response to [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s (DEC) [[VAX]] computer. The project was headed by Jon L White,<ref>{{cite web |title=Brief History of the Lisp Language |last=Pitman |first=Kent M. |url=http://www.lisp.org/table/Lisp-History.html |access-date=2006-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010150728/http://www.lisp.org/table/Lisp-History.html<!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=2006-10-10}}</ref> with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp while fixing many of its problems.

|archive-date=2016-09-22

|access-date=2006-10-15

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922192958/http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/Timrep.pdf

|url-status=dead

|lccn=85015161}}<!-- xiv, 285 p.; 23 cm. Cambridge, Mass. --></ref> and was in part a response to [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s (DEC) [[VAX]] computer. The project was headed by Jon L White,<ref>{{cite web |title=Brief History of the Lisp Language |last=Pitman |first=Kent M. |url=http://www.lisp.org/table/Lisp-History.html |access-date=2006-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010150728/http://www.lisp.org/table/Lisp-History.html<!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=2006-10-10}}</ref> with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp while fixing many of its problems.

==History==

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==Quotes==

{{QuoteBlockquote |The genesis & eventual failure of this kind of project is always clearly visible (in hindsight) in the [[shibboleth]]s of the early discussions. One key tip-off phrase is always something of the form, "We'll throw out all the old [[cruft]], start over fresh, and just Do Things Right." |author=Olin Shivers<ref name=Shivers/>}}

==References==

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* Jon L. White. Nil: A perspective. Proceedings of 1979 Macsyma Users' Conference, Washington, D.C., June 1979.

* Rodney A. Brooks, Richard P. Gabriel, Guy L. Steele Jr. S-1 Common Lisp Implementation. Proceedings of the 1982 ACM symposium on LISP and functional programming, Pittsburgh, 1982, pages 108 – 113. ACM DL

* Rodney A. Brooks, Richard P. Gabriel, Guy L. Steele Jr. An optimizing compiler for a lexically scoped LISP. Proceedings of the 1982 Symposium on Compiler Construction, Boston, June 1982, pages 261-275261–275. ACM DL

* Mark Smotherman. S-1 Supercomputer (1975–1988). Web site, last updated April 24, 2004. http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/s1.html