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Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment by lispm on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:44PM (#14862288)
That's not THE core of Lisp. It's a comstruction of a pure subset variant of Lisp. The actual LISP wasn't pure. Not before this particular paper and not after.
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Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment by doall on Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:03AM (#14862987)
>It's a comstruction of a pure subset variant of Lisp.

We viewed it as the core of LISP and this is just one view of LISP.

>The actual LISP wasn't pure. Not before this particular paper and not after.

LISP I is not pure and I agree.

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