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Common Lisp: The Untold Story (2008)
- ggm 6y agoI am probably putting a huge subjective quality on this, but I think computer science departments divided into two: ones who did serious work in lisp, and all the others, who had a functioning lisp compiler and nobody willing to teach it seriously. York, where I studied in 79-82 had just had Wirth in residence on a sabbatical, was totally committed to pascal, was backing one of the strawmen languages for the ADA selection committee, and had a hard core of committed Fortran, C and like block structured language people on staff. Nobody was using lisp. The effect on me was strong. Other people I know from the same time period but other universities with a different outlook on teaching have totally different perspectives on the nature of programming languages and programming in general.