A world without Lisp

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-09/msg00230.html

And I won't say anything about the stress given to Turing Machines over Lambda Calculus, my bet again is that without John McCarthy, nobody would know about Church's work anymore.

Imagine ``lambda calculus'' had nothing to do with programming.

Imagine there was no ``artificial intelligence'' scam.

What would the world be like if McCarthy's ``bizzare grant embezzlement scheme'' didn't exist?

I think lambda woule have been diiacovered eventuwllyb.ot matter what

Mary had a little lambda,
Its syntax white as snow,
And every program Mary wrote,
She wrote in Lisp, you know.

Cadddr, the cat and the fidder.