Language extensibility

Christopher R. Barry cbarry at 2xtreme.net
Sat Jul 3 04:24:16 EDT 1999


Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org> writes:

> * Michael P Reilly wrote:
> 
> > Supposedly, Lisp was created in 1953, a year after Fortran, and is said
> > to be the second higher-level (non-assembly) language written.
> 
> No, I think it's 1958 -- the 40th anniversary conference was last
> year, after all!
> 
> (A good year for programming languages and guitars both).

Hmm... L-4 CES, Les Paul... it seems every classic Gibson was
made in 1958....

Christopher




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