A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and
Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of
BBN-Lisp. It
emphasises user interfaces. It is currently supported by
Interlisp was once one of two main branches of LISP (the other
effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp
includes a Lisp programming environment. It is
dynamicallyscoped. NLAMBDA functions do not evaluate their arguments.
Any function could be called with optional arguments.
["Interlisp Programming Manual", W. Teitelman, TR, Xerox Rec
Ctr 1975].