LISP was devised by extra-terrestrials

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> LISP and Pascal are both descendants of Algol 60.
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Hate to say it, but Lisp was being developed at MIT by Mcarthy, et. al.,
at the same time Algol 60 was being developed. Check out

        "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their
         Computation by Machine". McCarthy, John. _Communications
         of the ACM_. Vol. 3, #1. January 1960.

This is the article in which McCarthy unveiled LISP after working on it
for a few years. The language described in it is not related to Algol.

Richard Hargrove
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