[$] Lisp and the foundations of computing

At the start of his linux.conf.au2019 talk, Kristoffer Grinlund said that he would be taking attendeesback 60 years or more. That is not quite to the dawn of computing history,but it is close-farther back than most of us were alive to remember. Heencountered John McCarthy's famous Lisppaper [PDF] via Papers We Loveand it led him to dig deeply into the Lisp world; he brought back a report forthe LCA crowd.