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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