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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/pr01s02.html">http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/pr01s02.html</a> says:<br>
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It lays its roots in the <acronym class="acronym">LISP</acronym>
programming language <a class="xref"
href="http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/bi01.html#bib.LISP1.5"
title="???TITLE???">[LISP1.5]</a> developed by John McCarthy in the
80s.<br>
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This sentence is ambiguous. I'd formulate it as:<br>
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Common Lisp was standardized in the 1980s. It lays its roots in the
<acronym class="acronym">LISP</acronym> programming language <a
class="xref"
href="http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/bi01.html#bib.LISP1.5"
title="???TITLE???">[LISP1.5]</a> developed by John McCarthy in the
1960s.<br>
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-- <br>
__Pascal Bourguignon__<br>
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