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Plexes are first mentioned in 1960

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/366199.366256

and the paper even starts with a critique of the efficiency of Lisp's approach for representing data with cons pairs (citing McCarthy's paper from the same year).

You might also want to watch Casey's great talk on the history of OOP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI



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