You might find the computer hobbyist magazine BYTE special issue on Lisp from August 1979 vol 4 no 8 to be interesting. It is linked here, with lots of discuss

You might find the computer hobbyist magazine BYTE special issue on Lisp from August 1979 vol 4 no 8 to be interesting. It is linked here, with lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033439 I don't recall much influence from Lisp on personal computing in its early days (late 70s early 80s). There were Lisp interpreters available for some of the popular computers but they couldn't do much besides pedagogical exercises like in The Little Schemer (which I think hadn't appeared yet) - I recall one system only supported about 1600 CONS cells. I recall Pascal was much more influential with Apple users. There was a whole operating system UCSD Pascal which was somewhat popular in the late 1970s that ran on Apple II.