About programing, a general question

[Kipton Moravec]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 09:54 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 12:16 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> 
> > Referring back to previous posts, Algol is of course the mother of all
> > languages, not Fortran.
> 
> FORTRAN predates Algol, although many concepts introduced by Algol
> (recursion, structured flow control, etc) are found in most modern
> programming languages.  Many of these concepts were backported to
> FORTRAN which originally had none of those concepts.


O'Reilly has a chart/poster. Pretty cool.
http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_0504.html

And no one is championing Lisp. :)

Symbolics and TI used to sell Lisp Machines. I saw people crank out
working prototype systems faster on those machines than on any other
platform before or after. 

The down side was that there was at least a 6 month learning curve to
get to that point. And most of the people that were really good on them
were more than a little strange. And you could not port the code easily
to a PC.

Kip  

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