lisp
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“When I program in other languages, even ones I know well,” he said, “I feel like I’ve flown to Jupiter. Gravity is so strong that every step is a struggle. In Lisp, you can dance.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019
This year, Eduardo Julian introduced us to his unapologetically ambitious Lux programming language, a functional, statically-typed Lisp.
From The Verge • Oct. 2, 2017
Languages will evolve, and ideas from Lisp and Haskell will continue to trickle down into everyday use, but I doubt that programming in 20 years will be an unrecognizable activity today.
From Forbes • Apr. 9, 2015
Harlan's syntax is based on Scheme, a dialect of the influential programming language Lisp, which was created by artificial intelligence researcher John McCarthy in 1958.
From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2013
In commercializing the Lisp Machine, the company pushed hacker principles of engineer-driven software design out of the ivory-tower confines of the AI Lab and into the corporate marketplace where manager-driven design principles held sway.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam
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