begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:28:05PM -0800:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:28:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'd have to agree with you.  Paul Graham says we really have only 2 strands
> > of very clean language families....the C family (C, C++, Java,
> > C#, etc.) and the LISP family, with languages moving more towards
> > the LISP side in recent years.
> 
> Is there a forth family?

Yup. 

Google sez: http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/ECATEGORY/Forthfam-1.html

Although that seems to include most of the stack-based languages, of
which the forth family would be a subset.

> Where is asm? It's all really asm in the end.

Nah, ASM is just high-level machine code. :)

-Stewart
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