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Based on how the FORTRAN article is written, it is consistent to say that LISP first appeared in 1960 when the specification was published. We unfortunately don't know the year that the interpreter was implemented, although that year might have been 1960. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/209.183.136.7|209.183.136.7]] ([[User talk:209.183.136.7#top|talk]]) 18:04, 15 December 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:See ''Early LISP History (1956-1959)'' by Herbert Stoyan available here: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050405213907/http://informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/lisp/histlit1.html][Https://web.archive.org/web/20050405213907/http://informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/lisp/histlit1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050405213907/http://informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/lisp/histlit1.html]
:Towards the end, it states:
:''This was pure theory then because the first garbage collector was implemented by Dan Edwards during June/July of 1959. At the end of April Dan Edwards was one of the first users of the LISP-system.''
:''We have to make it clear that the developing LISP-implementation already had serious users at this time...''
:And a few paragraphs down:
:''By chance one early version of the LISP-interpreter - dated 5/15/59 - is saved at MIT (in the possession of J. Moses) which does not contain the garbage collector.'' [[User:Unsuitably Silly Name|Unsuitably Silly Name]] ([[User talk:Unsuitably Silly Name|talk]]) 07:40, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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