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Re:Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creato... by owinebarger on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @04:49PM (#583999)
Hint: Some people believe Lisp was a discovery, not an invention.
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Re:Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creato... by berntb on Friday May 01, 2009 @08:49PM (#589372)
Saw this late, but anyway...

You can make a good argument about lambda-notation and Lisp, etc. BUT people talk about creators of types of mathematics. Newton and Leibniz developed calculus, etc. (Maybe sloppy, but a common colloquialism.)

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