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Lisp 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 go
by prodigal_erik 14y ago
Lisp 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.