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📣 dunefox

What are interesting features of older programming languages?


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.


  👤 lispm Accepted Answer ✓
> interesting that Common Lisp is image based

The first Lisp in 1960something was already using images.


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