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gugagore
on Feb 10, 2020
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JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Progra...
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.
cwyers
on Feb 10, 2020
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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...
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