Programming Concepts Pioneered By Lisp

Most notably:

• conditional expressions (like ?: in C)
• recursion
  • and stack call discipline (see how subroutines are implemented in Knuth's TheArtOfComputerProgramming?)
• Writing a compiler in the same language that it compiles - and making it compile itself while running under an interpreter.
• EssExpressions
• LispMacros
• GarbageCollection
• DynamicTyping
• FirstClassFunctions
• DataAndCodeAreTheSameThing
• MetaObjectProtocol
• Extensible syntax

For a more extensive list read Paul Graham's What Made Lisp Different at http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html.

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