John McCarthy LISP, 1960. Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions
the essay that started the LISP programing language.
- Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I
- By John Mccarthy.
- http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html
Origin of Phrase Garbage Collection
The first use of the jargon Garbage Collection is by John McCarthy in his 1960 LISP paper!