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Comment by jibalt

4 days ago

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/397792-ol...

It beats LISP by a year and COBOL by two years.

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leoc  4 days ago

And Fortran doesn’t just predate Lisp, it’s a direct ancestor. McCarthy was talking about LISP as a FORTRAN extension for quite a while during LISP’s development. The original Fortran is effectively LISP 0.

  • jibalt  3 days ago

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