"One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented."
— ALGOL

January 1, 1970

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Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.