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In 1981 the emerging Common Lisp community turned to Scheme for some of its motivation and inspiration [Steele 1984]. Adopting lexical scooping proved one of the most important decisions the Common Lisp group ever made.

One aspect of Scheme that was not adopted, however, was a single namespace for functions and values, along with uniform evaluation rules for expressions in function and argument positions within the language. At the 1986 ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming, members of a part of the European Lisp community (called the EuLisp group) involved in the design of a Lisp dialect suggested that Common Lisp should have adopted this paradigm and that it might still be appropriate to do so.

Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I

John McCarthy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1

April 1960

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Call a program ``elegant'' if no smaller program has the same output. I.e., a LISP S-expression is defined to be elegant if no smaller S-expression has the same value. For any computational task there is at least one elegant program, perhaps more. Nevertheless, we present a Berry paradox proof that it is impossible to prove that any particular large program is elegant. The proof is carried out using a version of LISP designed especially for this purpose.

This paper is the condensation of a discussion of inefficient sorts in the talk.origins newsgroup. The main focus was on a sort suggested by Richard Harter. Although the topic (and much of the discussion) was apparently frivolous it raised real mathematical issues which were considered in some depth by Thomas Marlowe.

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