IIRC LISP came first. I find it's notation annoying at best and impenetrable at worst. C and C++ were elegant, until such things a Templates, (with their particularly un-C like syntax), were grafted onto the language.
Now ForTran that was man's language. Scott Loveless wrote: > On 1/26/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: >> >> >>> On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. >>>> >>>> >>> Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant >>> roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the concepts it >>> introduced and its too bad that it wasnt adopted by other languages, >>> i.e. lambda is beautiful. >>> >> Ok, geeky trivia time ... which came first, LISP or FORTRAN? And no >> peeking at google.com... ;-) >> >> > What is FORTRAN, Alex? > > BTW, as much as most hate it, I rather like FORTRAN. "If you can't do > it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in > assembly language, it isn't worth doing." Please see: > http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html > > ;) > > -- -- The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
