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How is lush an old language? Looks like a language that was released last decade, but just never caught on.
by hat_matrix 13y ago
How is lush an old language? Looks like a language that was released last decade, but just never caught on.
- scottlocklin 13y agoLush as a language was developed in 1987, just like it says on the website. Older versions of it are reading the numbers off of your checks when you deposit it in the ATM machine. The ideas it embodies are significantly older than common lisp: it is a very pure hackers lisp: sorta has the eau de zetalisp about it (not that I really know anything about zetalisp, I ain't that old, but I've read about it). Studying it will make your brain grow. http://lush.sourceforge.net/credits.html http://lush.sourceforge.net/credits.html
- hat_matrix 13y agoActually it says that Lush's predecessors were developed in 1987. Version 1 of Lush was released last decade. But even if it was 1987, that's not older than Perl or Python.
- cbr 13y agoPerl was started in 1987, Python in 1989 [1]. [1] http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of...
- scottlocklin 13y agoWell, if you download, say, TL3 from Leon's page (a subset of SN), you'll immediately see that the "predecessors" are essentially the same language. Same Ogre, same UI. You can even call pieces of it in modern Lush. The name change is irrelevant. http://leon.bottou.org/projects/tl3 http://leon.bottou.org/projects/tl3
- lsh 13y ago"eau de zetalisp" => "water of zetalisp"
- rsofaer 13y agoI just wish that making an error in the debugging context didn't destroy my state. If it weren't for that, I might have used Lush again after Professor LeCun's Machine Learning class.