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I'm fairly certain Arc influenced Clojure in some way. Especially the naming of functions such as fn, pr, prn and the likes.

• dkersten 11y ago
  I'm not sure, I've used 'fn' in toy programming language concepts before I ever heard of arc or clojure. I mean, its not impossible and I certainly don't know about the others, but its also not impossible that they were independently named. However, I do think its very likely that arc influenced Clojure, even if just a little.
  • truncate 11y ago
    SML uses fn for lambda.
    • dkersten 11y ago
      Ah. Actually, now that you mention it, I probably saw it there before I ever thought of using it.
• brudgers 11y ago
  I can't help but imagine a party, not entirely unlike the opening scene of Animal House except that everyone is older. Our protagonist enters and a hipster host quickly leads him away from the action and into a side room saying "Rich, Paul is working on a new dialect of lisp, too."