Published on: 2025-06-28 16:45:39
Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long, rich and oftentimes confusing tradition. Unware of it at the time, in 1960 John McCarthy published a paper that over the next 64 years would spawn a thousand dialects and a number of very good ideas. The fragmentation of the Lisp family from an outside perspective can seem really confusing to newcomers, like a software Tower of Babel. In fact the variety of Lisp is in my opinion one of it's best qualities. It almost guarantees that as long
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