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McCarthy's Lisp in Python lists

John McCarthy, In the early '60s, unlocked a collection of remarkable ideas that work really well together and continue to be relevant decades later. To incorporate lambdas, we need to add a few functions we previously overlooked, specifically two primitives: assoc(x,y) and pairlis(x,y). and if you hadn't noticed already I actually cheated a bit in the COND case as this in the original lisp was a evcon which was also translated into a loop.

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