Re:Grumpy: Go running Python
by kazinator on Thursday January 05, 2017 @05:17PM
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20 years only takes us back to 1997, several years after Common Lisp was finally standardized. The ancestral dialects of Common Lisp were compiled as far back as the early 60's.
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Re:Grumpy: Go running Python
by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:15PM
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I didn't mean to imply that Lisp was only 20 years old or that common lisp was precisely 20 years old (I used the `~` to indicate that Common Lisp was approximately 20 years old), I just wasn't sure whether Lisp has always been a compiled language, so I restricted my claim to being a claim about Common Lisp and estimated its age conservatively.