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Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment by doall on Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:22AM (#14863057)
>Two of Graham's Seven Primitive Operators are car and cdr. These names come from the IBM 704 implementation;

Since the 1960 paper is after the LISP I manual and Graham's article is based on that paper the actual wordings are clearly influenced by LISP1.

>What Graham's Paper is describing is a back formation abstracted from what they got running on that IBM 704.

We viewed it as the core of LISP.

>Since code-is-data is the core of Lisp

Yes an another important part of LISP.

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