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{{dablink|This is about the programming langauge. For other uses see [[Nil]].}}

'''NIL''' was an implementation of [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] developed at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] and intended to be the successor to [[Maclisp|MacLisp]]. <ref name=STEELE>{{cite web | title=The evolution of Lisp| author=Guy L Steele Jr, Richard P Gabriel | url=http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf | accessdate=2006-10-12}}</ref> NIL stood for '''"New Implementation of LISP'''", and was in part a response to [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]s [[VAX]] computer. The project was headed by [[Jon L White]] <ref>{{cite web | title=Brief History of the Lisp Language| author=Kent M Pitman | url=http://www.lisp.org/table/Lisp-History.html | accessdate=2006-10-12}}</ref>, with a stated goal of maintaining compatability with MacLisp whilst fixing many of the problems with the language.

==History==

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

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

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