"The conception of list processing as an abstraction created a new world in which designation and dynamic symbolic structure were the defining characteristics. The embedding of the early list processing systems in languages (the IPLs, LISP) is often decried as having been a barrier to the diffusion of list processing techniques throughout programming practice; but it was the vehicle that held the abstraction together."
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Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, 1975 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (March 1976): p. 118.
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