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acheron
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Lisp Is Too Powerful
As the famous "Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" [1] essay puts it, Lisp's key techniques are "recursion and condescension".
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http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
zem
on April 15, 2013
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verity stob said that first (and the essay did attribute it correctly)
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[1] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...