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John McCarthy: Lisp and the idea of programming with symbols

Discover how John McCarthy designed Lisp to represent reasoning, turning lists, recursion, and code itself into structures programs could manipulate.

24 August 20268 minRead

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John Backus: FORTRAN, BNF, and the rejection of machine code

Discover how John Backus led the creation of FORTRAN, formalized language syntax, and proposed another way to think about programs.

3 August 20266 minRead