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It surprised me to learn that John McCarthy never intended S-expressions to be the human-facing syntax of LISP. http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
by macintux 11mo ago
It surprised me to learn that John McCarthy never intended S-expressions to be the human-facing syntax of LISP.
http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
- jolt42 11mo ago"One can even conjecture that LISP owes its survival specifically to the fact that its programs are lists, which everyone, including me, has regarded as a disadvantage" Not the first time someone didn't realize what they had.