On: Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy

[aston]

Although Gladwell would argue that Lisp, too, was as much an invention as anything done with it afterwards, insofar as the person who invented, say, CLOS was simply discovering it (in McCarthy's terms) before someone else did.

[herdrick → aston]

Probably a continuum from discovery to invention. I don't know CLOS, but it sounds like mostly an invention.

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