Hi fogus, I really enjoyed the article. I just want to point out a couple of typos: a) s/tern/term/ in footnote 9; b) in German nouns are always capitalized, so it should be "der Fluchtpunkt".

Wow, fantastic. This is a real rabbit hole. Thankyou

A nice read - thanks! I'm seeing some odd characters (Safari on Mac Mountain Lion): “the Common Lisp way.�� It may be just me...

The link to McCarthy's paper is broken. It has a closing paren at the end.