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Or Lisp. Lisp is definitely not dead, but was definitely very influential.

The article does touch on that:

"COBOL was one of the four “mother” languages, along with ALGOL, FORTRAN, and LISP."

Imho Lisp is deader than COBOL. Especially now that we've learned you can do the really hard and interesting bits of AI with high-performance number crunching in C++ and CUDA.

I wrote Lisp this morning to make Emacs do a thing. In other venues, people use Lisp to script AutoCAD.

Lisp isn't as widely used as, say, Python, but it's still something a lot of people touch every single day.

And Clojure

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