(02-16-2019, 08:03 PM)Jack Parker Wrote:Quote:Of course, there is almost half a century between Lisp and Python
To clarify what ofnuts is saying (for the youth out there):
Lisp invented functional programing, code-macros, object-oriented, DSLs (via reader macros), dynamic typing, dynamic code generation, interactive coding, interactive/graphic programming environments, syntax-aware editors (and all of emacs);
But as you say, half a century later, other languages are getting there.
Agreed, even though I think you forgot relational databases, and the whole of AI. Lisp is such a perfect language that it is in everyone's mind and everybody uses it.