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"LISP has a partially justified reputation of being more based on theory than most computer languages, presumably stemming from its functional form, its use of lambda notation and basing the interpreter on a universal function."

- John McCarthy, LISP - notes on its past and future (Page 1)

Conference on LISP and Functional Programming archive Proceedings of the 1980 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming table of contents Stanford University, California, United States Pages: .5 - viii Year of Publication: 1980

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=802782&dl=ACM&...