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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Of course, in LISP there is only one structure, for data and programs
> alike: the list!

LISP had S-expressions -- pairs of atoms or other S-expressions.  A list
was just a special case.  Many other structures could be built using
S-expressions.  An important one was that association list -- a list of
(key . value) pairs that was often used very much like a record type
(though it's quite a different beast).

-- 
Ben.