Comment by BoingBoomTschak

  > What Made Lisp Different:
  > 1. Conditionals (if-then-else construct)
  > 2. A function type (functions as first class objects)
  > 3. Recursion
  > 4. A new concept of variables (dynamic typing and pass-by-pointer)
  > 5. Garbage-collection

Looks like most modern languages have more in common with Lisp than FORTRAN, besides the syntax.