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The roots of al evil

This article is about the idea of  Lisp, its origins and why it was created. We need to take into consideration that technology has changed a lot since the 1950s and every year  Moore's Law becomes more real. We come from an era where big rooms were used for a single computer up to the time where a cellphone has the same power as a computer. In this case that was the problem that McCarthy found out while developing  Lisp. 

 According to the reading, there are many things he needed to take into consideration while developing this language and also because he had to fight a  major programming language: C. This programming language became popular among programmers and people who use a computer but it is still difficult to use for some other things. In this case, what I am referring to is that using C as multiparadigm language and some of the characteristics that make Lisp easier to use and many people who do not program can use.

In the case of the article, the objective is to make the reader understand the way McCarthy thought the programming language and how it was the first thought for computers and the main idea of how to program with this in the old times.  And now we can see how we use Clojure nowadays so we can see all see how it has been evolving through the years. Personally, I consider interesting the way they explain how it used to be so we can see the way we use some of the old instructions have been modified so little we still use them. Also, I consider that we should have read this article at the beginning of the semester due to the fact that we could have seen the origin of this language and get a general idea of how it behaves according to the creator so that we fully understand as we can see a bigger picture of it.

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