[Simh] pdp11 and unix

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On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:49:15 +0100 (CET)
Andreas Davour <ante at Update.UU.SE> wrote:

> "The over-all design of the LISP Programming System is the work of
> John McCarthy and is based on his paper NRecursive Functions of
> Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machinett which was
> published in Communications of the ACM, April 1960."
> 
> So that timeframe is sound.

It's interesting how many of the oldest languages are still in active use
and still moving forwards after so many years. There seems to have been
some kind of golden age of programming that started in late 1950s and went
for about a decade.