alt Hacker NewsTo be fair, most languages in use today are just FORTRAN with diffrent syntax.
Both Lisp and array language programmers are sadly somewhat rare.
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BoingBoomTschak • today at 10:17 AM
> What Made Lisp Different:
> 1. Conditionals (if-then-else construct)
> 2. A function type (functions as first class objects)
> 3. Recursion
> 4. A new concept of variables (dynamic typing and pass-by-pointer)
> 5. Garbage-collection
Looks like most modern languages have more in common with Lisp than FORTRAN, besides the syntax.
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Fortran's genesis is quite different from the algol family of languages which is what everyone uses today. This is why numerical computation always feels a bit off compared to the host language, be is numpy or GSL.