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Ask HN: What are interesting features of older programming languages?
4 points by dunefox on Oct 27, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Hey HN!

What are interesting features of old(er) programming languages that haven't made it into mainstream/newer languages?

Unusual control structures, etc.

For example, I find it interesting that Common Lisp is image based, which I haven't seen in any other language except Smalltalk.



> interesting that Common Lisp is image based

The first Lisp in 1960something was already using images.


APL - "notation as a tool of thought"




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