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Re:Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (2008) by vram22 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:28PM (#19322434)
>Average Joe and Susi have been for 3+ decades nicely programming lots of extensions to AutoCAD and its various clones in Lisp.

Ha ha, I read somewhere that years ago, in some org or the other, Emacs Lisp was programmed by secretaries to help them achieve their routine tasks. Apparently they were not told that it was "too difficult for them" :)

Re:Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (2008) by ACE_Recliner on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:28PM (#19363500)
Bit late, but it was Multics Emacs and the language they were writing in was Maclisp.