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The "influenced" list is getting rather long and vague. Some of these are not confirmed either in the article on the language referenced or in the [[timeline of programming languages]]. I think the list should be restricted to languages whose ''primary'' influence was Lisp where Lisp was specifically mentioned as a primary influence by the language designer(s). Otherwise, we may end up with a list containing nearly every post-Lisp language, which is hardly useful. [[User:Yworo|Yworo]] ([[User talk:Yworo|talk]]) 15:27, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

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Well, there are a lot of languages that are influenced by Lisp - no wonder, since Lisp is 50 years old and has lots of dialects. ML was first implemented in Lisp, Perl mentions Lisp as an influence, Python mentions Lisp, Smalltalk mentions Lisp, Ruby mentions Lisp, Dylan mentions Lisp,Mathematica does not mention Lisp but is influenced by it (Wolfram implemented an earlier version, SMP, in Lisp), Rebol mentions Lisp, Qi is implemented in Lisp, Lua mentions Lisp, Javascript mentions Scheme, Forth mentions Lisp, Nu mentions Lisp, ...