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He also wrote the first two implementations of Lisp for the IBM 704 after having a class about the (until then) theoretical language. It was Russell who realized that the concept of Universal Function s could be applied to the language; by implementing the Lisp universal evaluator in a lower-level language, it became possible to create the Lisp Interpreter (previous development work on the language had focused on Compiling the language). To simplify implementation, he developed the S-expression notation, creating the first Homoiconic language in the process. He invented the Continuation to solve a problem for one of the users of his Lisp implementation.

He holds Bachelor Of Science , Master Of Science , and Engineer degrees in EECS from MIT .

At one time Steve worked for a company founded by Nolan Bushnell after Atari .

Steve has stated that it is unclear how his nickname "Slug" came about.


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