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There are four guys credited as the creators of Julia, but the guy who sort of had the initial idea, Jeff Bezanson, is definitely a lisp enthusiast. He created his own dialect of scheme (like every lisp enthusiast), femtolisp https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp

This lisp is still used as part of the Julia parser.

Julia isn't really a lisp and it isn't trying to be, though it does have some things in common:

* AST macros

* everything is an expression and has a value

* while infix notation is supported for operators, they are just normal functions.

Still, the language is very much array-oriented and, as far as I know, there isn't even a linked list implementation in the standard library. It's a side-effect of trying to be fast. (pun strongly intended.)



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