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8-0 Allow me to disagree.
Allow me to disagree again. LISP was lambda calculus made flesh and was very popular in academia. Outside of the ivory towers, the suits used COBOL, and the numbers people used Fortran (followed by a whole lot of Algol-family languages) to write their applications.