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 The ITS Lisp is called Maclisp, or PDP-10 Maclisp if necessary to disambiguate it against [[Multics Maclisp]].  Its direct ancestor is [[its_pdp6_lisp|PDP-6 LISP]]. The ITS Lisp is called Maclisp, or PDP-10 Maclisp if necessary to disambiguate it against [[Multics Maclisp]].  Its direct ancestor is [[its_pdp6_lisp|PDP-6 LISP]].
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 +The biggest difference between Multics Maclisp is PDP-10 version does not have "real" string data type, the PDP-10 Maclisp string is just a symbol with a special property been set. The good news is the ''format'' pretty printer function is still available to build strings with complex contents.
  
 **A sample MACLISP session on ITS using LEDIT MODE in EMACS** **A sample MACLISP session on ITS using LEDIT MODE in EMACS**
its_lisp.txt · Last modified: 2022/05/23 03:10 by ldbeth