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Gosh. Emblematic event: the journal Lisp and Functional Programming changed its name to drop Lisp, around early 90s iirc. So much of Lisp is super mainstream since before some programmers were born, now, that those aspects are no longer linked with it. And dynamic typing and GC are fucking ubiquitous compared to their status in the 80s.

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I was annoyed at first but I think JonChesterfield was joking

Oh, thanks! Very thick of me.

It's an obvious joke from the perspective of javascript or literally true for rust enthusiasts. It's fascinating that various different branches of the language tree agree that lisp did some things right and completely disagree about which things those were.

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