Comment by sph

2 days 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?

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dang  2 days ago

...booleans, conditional expressions, first-class functions, lambdas, closures, eval...

  • AnimalMuppet  2 days ago

    Booleans? I think some guy named Boole might have prior art...

    (Yeah, OK, he didn't have a programming language...)

    • dang  2 days ago

      booleans as values of course.

      arguably redundant since GP did say symbolic communication, but Lisp had T before Algol 60 came out