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Algol built on ideas from Lisp. Although recursion was almost missing from Algol. Even many modern languages are still playing catchup with ideas from Lisp.
by rzzzwilson 4y ago
Algol built on ideas from Lisp. Although recursion was almost missing from Algol. Even many modern languages are still playing catchup with ideas from Lisp.
- signa11 4y agolisp the concept and lisp the implementation happened quite a while apart, and algol was somewhere in the middle (if i get my programming language genealogy right)