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From: | Paul Scott |
Subject: | Re: Roadmap to lily code |
Date: | Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:07:25 +0000 |
User-agent: | Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) |
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Art Hixson wrote:Over the years I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of Fortran, Cobol, assembly for a variety of machines, Forth, Rexx, Modula, Python. While Modula is syntactically perfect and Python, as its descendant, is pretty nearly so, they still have a rather old fashioned feel and while useful aren't particularly interesting.That's an interesting observation, given that LISP is probably older than all of the languages you mention :)
Fortran was invented in 1954. The implementation of LISP began in Fall 1958.
Paul Scott
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