The first Go program was a LISP S-expression parser: http://blog.golang.org/first-go-program http://blog.golang.org/first-go-program Stephen Wolfram writes abo

The first Go program was a LISP S-expression parser: http://blog.golang.org/first-go-program http://blog.golang.org/first-go-program Stephen Wolfram writes about the birth of Mathematica: "Macsyma was written in LISP, and lots of people said LISP was the only possibility. But a young physics graduate student named Rob Pike convinced me that C was the “language of the future”, and the right choice." http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/06/06/there-was-a-time-before-mathematica/ http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/06/06/there-was-a-time-before-m...