John McCarthy himself said, "Pure Lisp was a discovery, everything that has been done with it since has been an invention." McCarthy said this while visiting

John McCarthy himself said, "Pure Lisp was a discovery, everything that has been done with it since has been an invention." McCarthy said this while visiting a class at Stanford on May 7 2008 --- according to an eyewitness report here on Hacker News! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185348