Language extensibility

[Michael P. Reilly]

In comp.lang.python Jeff Dalton <jeff at todday.aiai.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
: Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org> writes:

:> * Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
:> 
:> > Huh? Forth dates back to the 60s, whereas Scheme is from 1975, and I'm
:> > quite unsure of whether Chuck Moore knew Lisp at all.

: Well *Lisp* dates back to the late 50s.  Scheme may be from 75,
: but Lisp is a different matter.  And lambda calculus is, what,
: 1949?

Supposedly, Lisp was created in 1953, a year after Fortran, and is said
to be the second higher-level (non-assembly) language written.

But then... I wasn't around at that time, so what do I know. ;)

  -Arcege