School (Was: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN

John Foust wrote: According to that history, non-sequential time influences are common in the history of programming languages. 1936 - [Alonzo Church & lambda calculus] ... This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented. 1965 - [BASIC] ... Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964. 1970 - [Pascal] ... This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented. 1983 - [C++] ... The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. Valtrep fits right in, we need another entry: ca. 1970 - Valtrep influences the creation of FORTRAN (see 1957). FLASH! I know what happened: Doc Brown left a page of a Valtrep listing inside the DeLorean when Marty took it back to the 50's. The page was stuck to the bottom of Marty's shoe when he exited the DeLorean. It was picked up by Backus and inspired him to produce FORTRAN. See, everything can be explained by pop culture.