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As the famous "Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" [1] essay puts it, Lisp's key techniques are "recursion and condescension".

[1] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...



verity stob said that first (and the essay did attribute it correctly)




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