Re: Roadmap to lily code

[Paul Scott]

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