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Common Lisp is 28, which a year younger than C++ and not much older than Perl. So not a dinosaur language as some people think. <g>
by felideon 14y ago
Common Lisp is 28, which a year younger than C++ and not much older than Perl. So not a dinosaur language as some people think. <g>
- prodigal_erik 14y agoLisp was invented 54 years ago. The Common Lisp standard is the capstone on an unusually long and fractured history of development. Fortunately many of those good ideas have trickled down over the decades, making mainstream languages steadily less terrible, and competing proprietary implementations are no longer commonplace.
- derleth 14y ago> Lisp was invented 54 years ago. The Common Lisp standard is the capstone on an unusually long and fractured history of development. Hm. If we do this, then C++ is merely one 'capstone' on the history of Algol development, which is about as old as Lisp is.
- chimeracoder 14y agoFORTRAN is the oldest language that is still used today. If you consider the Lisp dialects together as a single language, then Lisp would be a close second. Scheme, for example, is a decade older than Common Lisp, but it's still commonly considered a Lisp (no pun intended).