Graydon Hoare (original author of Rust) wrote a truly lovely essay in two parts about the history of programming languages, the predominance of two-language systems – or "Ousterhout-dichotomy languages," as he puts it – Lisp's historical defiance of this dichotomy, Dylan as a successor to Lisp, and finally Julia as a modern successor to Lisp and Dylan:
http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/3186.html http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/189377.html This is a great read and an edifying historical perspective, regardless of the Julia bit at the end, but may be especially interesting to folks on julia-users.
