[agumonkey]

But james slagle issue came before algol was finished, and IIRC some algol document mentions the funarg problem too, so there was crosspollinisation.

[kazinator]

There is also the fact that if you have assoc lists, you can trivially easily write a badly performing but correctly lexical lisp interpreter in dynamic lisp, and I suspect this was consciously known. Maybe not enough people cared?