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Yeah but apart from SBCL, Viaweb, Hacker News, Emacs, Clojure, Scheme, Racket, garbage collection, macros, homoiconicity, the REPL, S-expressions, symbolic comp

by sph 3mo ago

Yeah but apart from SBCL, Viaweb, Hacker News, Emacs, Clojure, Scheme, Racket, garbage collection, macros, homoiconicity, the REPL, S-expressions, symbolic computation, what has Lisp ever done for us?

dang 3mo ago
...booleans, conditional expressions, first-class functions, lambdas, closures, eval...
- AnimalMuppet 3mo ago
  Booleans? I think some guy named Boole might have prior art... (Yeah, OK, he didn't have a programming language...)
  - dang 3mo ago
    booleans as values of course. arguably redundant since GP did say symbolic communication, but Lisp had T before Algol 60 came out