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Steve Russell also wrote the first (digital) computer game, Spacewar, in 1962.

If you want to trick a pointy-haired boss into letting you write software in Lisp, you could try telling him it's XML.

Here is the accumulator generator in other Lisp dialects: Scheme: (define (foo n) (lambda (i) (set! n (+ n i)) n)) Goo: (df foo (n) (op incf n _))) Arc: (def foo (n) [++ n _]) Erann Gat's sad tale about "industry best practice" at JPL inspired me to address this generally misapplied phrase.

Peter Norvig found that 16 of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns were "invisible or simpler" in Lisp.

Thanks to the many people who answered my questions about various languages and/or read drafts of this, including Ken Anderson, Trevor Blackwell, Erann Gat, Dan Giffin, Sarah Harlin, Jeremy Hylton, Robert Morris, Peter Norvig, Guy Steele, and Anton van Straaten. They bear no blame for any opinions expressed.


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