LiSP describes shallow binding, where values are stored on the var rather than in a symbol table. TIL GHC does this!
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TIL Drupal has a credit system to give preferential treatment to people and organisations who contribute regularly! https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem
Today I learnt that the original name for DOS was QDOS, for "Quick and Dirty Operating System"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS#QDOS
(Seems rather unfortunate that they dropped the Q.)
TIL Tcl has a notion of 'safe interpreters', a mode where you can run untrusted code in a sandbox: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/safe.htm
Not many programming languages have this, but it's way safer to include in the implementation than try to build as a userland library.