> from 'What Are the True Innovations of Lisp?': "... and realistically no programmer today cares about what made a language stand out 50 years ago. ..." "...

> from 'What Are the True Innovations of Lisp?': "... and realistically no programmer today cares about what made a language stand out 50 years ago. ..." "... re there any features that couldn’t be copied so easily into the various descendants of Algol? ..." Might be because there are no academic papers linking the ALGOL language issue(s)/bugs (that happen with regularity in languages such as C) and the applicative languages not having algo langueage issue(s)/bugs (such as lisp) because applicative languages support 1st class handling (and variations) of NIL, NUL, (), "", and ''