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Lisp
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On a distant hilltop, twinkling like an early evening star, a white light was flashing.
Blouse lowered his telescope. ‘They're repeating "CQ",’ he said. ‘And I believe those longer pauses are when they're aiming their tube in different directions. They're looking for their spies. "Seek You", see? Private Igor?’
‘Thur?’
‘You know how that tube works, don't you?’
‘Oh, yeth, thur. You jutht light a flare in the box, and then it'th just point and click.’
‘You're not going to answer it, are you, sir?
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― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
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If you understand McCarthy's eval, you understand more than just a stage in the history of languages. These ideas are still the semantic core of Lisp today. So studying McCarthy's original paper shows us, in a sense, what Lisp really is. It's not something that McCarthy designed so much as something he discovered. It's not intrinsically a language for AI or for rapid prototyping, or any other task at that level. It's what you get (or one thing you get) when you try to axiomatize computation.
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