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Pattern matching appeared in Lisp in the 1960's. See The COMIT Feature in LISP II, https://www.softwarepreservation.com/projects/LISP/lisp2/MIT...

Most mainstream Lisp dialects have some sort of structural pattern matching. Common Lisp has destructuring-bind, which is enough for avoiding car/cdr. Plus a number of advanced pattern matching libraries that are not just for matching lists.

Same with Scheme dialects.

Even Emacs Lisp has pattern matching: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PatternMatching

Nobody needs to work without pattern matching in Lisp, save for maybe some hapless AutoCAD users.