swap() macro (LISP & Algol)

[franka at mntgfx.UUCP]

In article <2498 at mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> ambar at mit-eddie.UUCP (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>LISP and Pascal are both descendants of Algol 60.
>-- 

	Unfortunately, this is not true.  PASCAL IS a descendant of ALGOL 60.
The evolution of LISP has nothing to do with that of ALGOL, FORTRAN, or any
other language of that era.  People who are interested might check out
Wexelblat's "History of Programming Languages" where John McCarthy includes
a paper on the history of LISP (if anybody knows this, he should).  I'm not
sure of the publisher (I have my copy at home), but it's whoever publishes the
ACM Monograph series.
				Frank Adrian
				Mentor Graphics, Inc.