SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Mon Aug 20 05:25:38 2001

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.
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