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> Julia has nothing to do with Lisp

Julia's surface syntax, among other parts of the core, are implemented in their own lisp dialect.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia-par...

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On top of that, Julia's non-lispy surface syntax has a perfectly valid s-expression representation that can be displayed with `Meta.show_sexpr`, and for which you could hypothetically enable a repl in only a few lines (e.g. [1])

[1] https://gist.github.com/brenhinkeller/44051118c2f9d18b26dc76...

I know hardly anything about either language, but 'Julia' does sound suspiciously like 'Dylan', and Dylan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) is usually described as a successor to Common Lisp in heavy disguise.

The Julia authors have been open about how heavily they were inspired by Dylan. A little googling will throw up statements for anyone interested.

In particular, Dylan was one of only a few other languages to Take Multiple Dispatch Seriouslyᵀᴹ

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One look at that parser code makes me, a seasoned web and desktop app developer with cocky high minded "architectural" thinking, shrivel with insignificance and embarrassment.

Mad respect to the process and people that makes this possible.

As someone who focuses almost exclusively on backend development, I look at complex ui code similarly. Mad respect to the people who have the vision and skill to design and write well incredible UIs.

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