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Paul Graham suggested in 2004 that not having an O’Reilly book was a real factor:

http://www.andrewlangman.com/articles/the-missing-lisp-book....

Can you guess the animal that should have been on the cover?

http://www.maclisp.info/animal/

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/animal.l

Maybe given the age and longevity of the language and the creature, the tuatara would be the appropriate cover animal. (It is in the animal.l source.)

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