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The article doesn't explain what imp stands for. Is there a meaning for it?

The language was created by E. T. Irons and I remember it being claimed that IMP stood for Iron's Magnificent Plaything. Unfortunately, I can't find a source for that claim. MediaMangler (talk) 06:15, 18 May 2012 (UTC) [reply ]

I remember hearing that Irons got interested in extensible syntax languages from Tony Brooker and the Atlas Autocode Compiler Compiler which was also to some extent an extensible syntax system. Sorry I do not have a reference for that at the moment but I'll return here if I find it. It is probably just a coincidence that Edinburgh's extension of Atlas Autocode came to also be called Imp. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.243.109.9 (talk) 02:27, 24 January 2017 (UTC) [reply ]

IDA, not NSA

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Ned Irons developed IMP at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Communications Research Division, not the National Security Agency. [1]

Flagging this as a COI out of an abundance of caution. I worked with Ned at IDA and later at Yale, where I wrote IMP72 using his syntax-directed compiler algorithm and my own method of describing the generated code. Bilofsky (talk) 21:39, 8 November 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. Having found the journal in question, this looks right to me. - Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 03:21, 10 November 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
  1. ^ Irons, Edgar T., Experience with an Extensible Language, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 31–40 (Jan. 1970)

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