Damn, should have looked it up.
Boris Liberman wrote:
> 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
>
>
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