> Julia has nothing to do with Lisp.
From the article, quoting the makers of Julia:
> We want a language that’s homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab.
In this case, the makers of the language clearly give a nod to Lisp as an inspiration, but even were that not the case, it's basically nonsense to say that any language "has nothing to do with lisp". Lisp has been a driving force in PL for a generation, and its influences are everywhere.