Seriously, can we stop fetishising old approaches and papers? Yes, there's some tricks we've missed along the way, but there's a thread of alchemical thinking in our community that is just plain unproductive.
Personally, I'd rather read about regexps. We have a word for reading about old techniques where I am from -- we call it "learning".
If our community has a problem in this area, it's that we don't pay enough attention to the old ways.
The entire existence of Go is predicated on fetishizing old approaches, unfortunately.
You write that as if Lisp isn't the Philosopher's Stone. :)