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by amatic 3797 days ago
Very smart comment. I've had a long brake from programming and all this functional and lisp stuff is new, and it is not always clear what is the benefit. But is great to see a diversity and experimentation.
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radlad 3797 days ago
Lisp is actually the second oldest programming language (behind Fortran.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%2...

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jcoffland 3797 days ago
Algol was created in the same year as lisp.
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