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Re:The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (2013) by TacticalCoder on Sunday February 09, 2014 @04:33PM (#7207365)
"How many computing technologies from 1969 are we still in daily contact with?"

Lisp? We're all reading HN which is written in some Lisp dialect. There are also quite a few Clojure devs in here (including me) and a few using other Lisp dialects (and participating in flamewars about what a true Lisp is or is not). Don't know if it counts ^ ^

And then not 1969 but 1976: daily Emacs user here...

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Re:The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (2013) by chubot on Sunday February 09, 2014 @04:49PM (#7207452)
Yup, Lisp will definitely be around long after most of the technologies we read about today :)

I have yet to do much with Clojure, mainly because I'm not really in the JVM ecosystem. But I think its focus on immutability is a great contribution to Lisp and will last a long time. It's an idea that transcends a particular implementation.

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