Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: > >> On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. >>> >> Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant >> roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the concepts it >> introduced and its too bad that it wasnt adopted by other languages, >> i.e. lambda is beautiful. > > Ok, geeky trivia time ... which came first, LISP or FORTRAN? And no > peeking at google.com... ;-) > > G >
Godders, every progra-toddler knows that Fortran was the first symbolic programming language after machine code and assembly. Lisp came in the second ;-). Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
