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"Pure Lisp was a discovery, everything that has been done with it since has been an invention."
McCarthy said this while visiting a class at Stanford on May 7 2008 --- according to an eyewitness report here on Hacker News!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185348
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"Pure Lisp was a discovery, everything that has been done with it since has been an invention."
McCarthy said this while visiting a class at Stanford on May 7 2008 --- according to an eyewitness report here on Hacker News!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185348