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Nostalgia is an odd word to use here when Guile is a Scheme, and so is part of the Lisp family.
by anoctopus 10y ago
Nostalgia is an odd word to use here when Guile is a Scheme, and so is part of the Lisp family.
- amirouche 10y agois lisp older than C?
- jabl 10y agoYes. It's the second-oldest high level programming language (after Fortran). - Fortran: 1957 - Lisp: 1958 - ... - C: 1972
- amirouche 10y agoI mean to say lisp family. so Fortran counts as part of C family.
- lucozade 10y agoC is part of the Algol family. Fortran was/is syntactically and semantically quite different. Algol was almost contemporaneous with Fortran and, although did learn from Fortran, was, at least partly, a reaction to its perceived flaws.
- skissane 10y agoWell, contemporary Fortran is probably part of Algol family too, since newer versions of Fortran (at least 77 onwards) incorporate the block structured programming concepts from Algol. The "family tree" analogy works imperfectly for programming languages since it is more of a directed cyclic graph than a tree structure – Fortran influenced Algol and then Algol in turn influenced Fortran.
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