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		innguest on Nov 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dennis Ritchie, the father of everything If he's the father of everything, then he's to blame for everything being worse than it could have been with Lisp. He's the Thomas Edison of this story, and I'm with Tesla.

vezzy-fnord on Nov 3, 2013 [–]

I don't think C is at fault here so much as the fact that register machines are our primary model of computation.

Smug Lisp Weenies will be just that though.

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