Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L...
by gugagore on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:41PM
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I'd love an example of the subtle influence.
In any case, the influence of lisp on julia is pretty obvious if you're familiar with lisp, I believe.
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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L...
by cwyers on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:19PM
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I believe that R was originally an implementation of S in Scheme, because of the restrictive commercial licensing of S and the desire to have a free-as-in-beer alternative that was S-compatible. This comes through in things like R's metaprogramming:
https://adv-r.hadley.nz/meta-big-picture.html#meta-big-pictu...