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		nessus42 on Jan 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Ins... I enjoyed the article. I just have a factual correction: Lisp had real macros as early as the 70s, not the 80s. (Maybe even earlier, for all I know.)

daniel-cussen on Jan 8, 2014 [–]

Lisp macros were introduced in 1963 by Tim Hart at MIT.

pmcjones on Jan 11, 2014 | [–]

Here's the original technical report:

ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-057.pdf

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