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I think in the constellation of languages there's still more intersection of "feature dots" between the two than there is disjunction. Multimethods & numerics emphasis alone makes them uniquely similar, as the latter especially is not a feature that has been mined well in other languages.

Some of the influence is quite conscious, too, from my reading. Though as you mention is obviously a lot of common influence from Dylan and Common Lisp.

And here's a talk by Guy Steele about the Fortress experience, at JuliaCon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZD3Scuv02g



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