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J. C. Shaw Dead

J. C. Shaw
KindPerson
Born1922
Died1991
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Also known asCliff Shaw
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Co-created IPL at RAND — linked lists before Lisp — then built JOSS, one of the first interactive languages.

Created JOSS

Co-created JOSS at RAND (1963) — the first interactive personal-computing language — and co-invented the linked list and Information Processing Language with Newell and Simon.\n\nIPL's list-processing idea is Lisp's ancestor via McCarthy.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Shaw
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Shaw