Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

John Cowan <[email protected]>
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William Tanksley scripsit:

> I think you're right and Wikipedia (at best) is failing to apply proper
> context to Graham's quote; he was probably talking about how the
> precursor to LISP (which used a different syntax) became LISP.

Just so.

Also, McCarthy's memory is fallible (not suprising at age 81) and has
many times been proved wrong with reference to original documents.

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