Lisp
Genera - The Living Lisp Machine OS
Preface: Why Genera Still Matters Genera is a Lisp-based operating system and development environment originally built for Symbolics Lisp Machines in the 1980s and later ported to run in a virtual machine as Open Genera and, more recently, Portable Genera.
When Inferior Languages Won: How C Conquered Lisp and the World
When Inferior Languages Won Lisp was light years ahead: symbolic, self aware, and alive. C was simple, brittle, and close to the metal. Yet C won. Not because it was better, but because the world changed its definition of better.