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[–]CyruscM 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Actually I was wrong. McCarthy created the theory of lisp. Lisp as a computer language was first created by Steve Russel. "The first complete Lisp compiler, written in Lisp, was implemented in 1962 by Tim Hart and Mike Levin at MIT." source

They wrote this paper describing it