On 5/1/24 18:43, Norman Jaffe via cctalk wrote:
APL is very much alive - it was invented in the '60s. Lisp is slightly older and it, as well, is still in active use - and it's older than FORTRAN, which was the inspiration for BASIC.
Lisp is VERY VERY much alive, but rarely seen. The emacs editor on unix-related systems, (and several other editors on Linux hide emacs from you, but it is the editing engine down underneath.) AI geeks use Lisp for a variety of things.
Jon