20 Aug
2001
20 Aug
'01
5:25 a.m.
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 04:43:16PM -0400, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
I fortunately learned early on (even before college)
that there were
families of similar languages and there are only a few families: procedural
(Fortran, BASIC, C, Pascal, Lisp, Forth), functional (Haskel, ML, /bin/sh
(to a degree), Lisp, Forth), object oriented (which came out of procedural
mostly, Smalltalk, C++, Jaba, Lisp, Forth), assembly (pick your chip) and
Lisp (Lisp, Forth, Postscript). And once you know a few, picking up a new
one is no big deal (okay, what's the syntatic surgar for this one?)
Mostly true but there are exceptions. Logic programming (Prolog), and maybe
languages with parallelism (occam), come to mind. I know there are others.