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A comment on GNU Guile 2.2.0. Parent comment

Re:GNU Guile 2.2.0 by anoctopus on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:43AM (#13885948)
Nostalgia is an odd word to use here when Guile is a Scheme, and so is part of the Lisp family.
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Re:GNU Guile 2.2.0 by amirouche on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:05PM (#13888041)
is lisp older than C?
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Re:GNU Guile 2.2.0 by jabl on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:21PM (#13888213)
Yes.

It's the second-oldest high level programming language (after Fortran).

- Fortran: 1957

- Lisp: 1958

- ...

- C: 1972

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Re:GNU Guile 2.2.0 by amirouche on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:47PM (#13888503)
I mean to say lisp family. so Fortran counts as part of C family.
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Re:GNU Guile 2.2.0 by lucozade on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:35PM (#13889413)
C is part of the Algol family. Fortran was/is syntactically and semantically quite different. Algol was almost contemporaneous with Fortran and, although did learn from Fortran, was, at least partly, a reaction to its perceived flaws.
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Re:GNU Guile 2.2.0 by skissane on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:18PM (#13889701)
Well, contemporary Fortran is probably part of Algol family too, since newer versions of Fortran (at least 77 onwards) incorporate the block structured programming concepts from Algol.

The "family tree" analogy works imperfectly for programming languages since it is more of a directed cyclic graph than a tree structure – Fortran influenced Algol and then Algol in turn influenced Fortran.

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