The Evolution of Lisp

@article{Gabriel2008TheEO,
  title={The Evolution of Lisp},
  author={Richard P. Gabriel and Guy L. Steele},
  journal={Companion to the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications},
  year={2008}
}
  • R. Gabriel, G. Steele
  • Published 19 October 2008
  • Computer Science
  • Companion to the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
Lisp is the world's greatest programming language---or so its proponents think. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Overall, the evolution of Lisp has been guided more by institutional rivalry, one-upsmanship, and the glee born of technical cleverness that is characteristic of the "hacker culture" than by sober assessments of technical requirements. Nevertheless, this process has eventually produced… 
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