I read on wikipedia that Julia was influenced by Mathematica. I have never used mathematica so am wondering which part of it influenced Julia? For example I know the list comprehension from Python influenced Julia.

Mathematica and CLOS are contemporaneous (Mathematica was launched in 1988, CLOS standardisation effort started in 1986 and finished in 1990). Even considering the predecessors of CLOS you get only one extra decade, not several.

It wasn’t really. People keep adding influences in the wikipedia page and they just get added back even if you delete them. I pared the list down at one point, but people seem to want to claim anything and everything is an influence – even languages that I’m pretty sure none Jeff, Viral and I have n…

[image] StefanKarpinski: I pared the list down at one point, but people seem to want to claim anything and everything is an influence – even languages that I’m pretty sure none Jeff, Viral and I have never programmed in, like Fortran and Lua. Note that the Julia manual is partly responsible f…

After pondering Panini and his recursive linguistic grammar some more, and thinking of the fact some have also proposed the use of Julia as a “specification language”, I think what makes Julia stand out is that it is a great universal language that has the potential and ability to easily and precise…

[image] chakravala: might not be a direct inheritance relation from Mathematica to Julia, but could be onnected via the Lisp inheritance. “Connected” is pretty meaningless in this context, replacing a directed graph (influence) with an undirected one.

My intention was not to change it from a directed graph to an undirected graph, but to indicate that digraph is rooted at Lisp, with Julia and Mathematica being on separate branches from that root. Just an idea.

Yeah, fair enough, and I did add Lua to that list. Although in the original wording it was clearer that it was by inclusion in the set of dynamic languages, rather than as a direct influence. Similarities between Fortran and Julia are striking, but they’re all result of multiple indirect influences …

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[image] netlander: The most fundamental concept in computer science is called an Algorithm for a good reason Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Keep hearing things like Panini creating computer science or decimal system invented by some indian mathematician when the evidence is to the contrary, …

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