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Just about every innovative idea from Lisp, and there were quite a few of them, has been incorporated into modern programming languages. Except for sexpr syntax
by cageface 8y ago
Just about every innovative idea from Lisp, and there were quite a few of them, has been incorporated into modern programming languages. Except for sexpr syntax. Draw your own conclusions.
- lispm 8y agosexpr syntax has incorporated into 'modern' programming languages like Clojure, LFE, Hy, ...
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIndeed. Sexps are a syntax, so incorporating them in a language means you immediately start to look like a Lisp.
- kazinator 8y ago> Draw your own conclusions My conclusion is that those languages which incorporate S-exps become identified as some kind of Lisp. This is the case even when it's a misidentification; i.e. little else is there of any Lisp "DNA" other than the parentheses. Or else, those languages become identified as something that is not modern. Thus, no modern, non-Lisp language has S-exps.