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Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church), which was invented or discovered to prove that
the [halting problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem) is unsolvable.

The most distinguishing things about lisp is a notion that code and data are represented using the
same [data structures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure), in lisp they are lists. This
is very importent characteristic and it's called
[Homoiconicity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity).

## S-Expressions

In Lisp, everything is written as S-Expression which is a list wrapped in parentheses with space
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