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:Also, the fact that both of the references provided on the page state that only Fortran is older than Lisp should be taken into account. These are references from people who were around at the time, and it isn't as if COBOL is something they would have been unaware of.
:[[User:Unsuitably Silly Name|Unsuitably Silly Name]] ([[User talk:Unsuitably Silly Name|talk]]) 07:40, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
== Crediting original development properly ==
The first paragraph in the "History" section is written as if McCarthy was the sole author of lisp. However, the cited paper contains this in the "acknowledgements" section:
{{blockquote|text=The Lisp programming system was developed by a group including R. Brayton, D. Edwards, P. Fox, L. Hodes, D. Luckham, K. MMing, J. McCarthy , D. Park, S. Russell.}}
So it sounds to me like McCarthy is the one who wrote the paper, which is valuable labor, but different than the development of lisp. Is there a reason not to acknowledge this explicitly in the article? [[User:Skyvine|skyvine ]] ([[User talk:Skyvine|talk]]) 13:47, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
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