On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, stephen white wrote:

> Nothing new since Turing and von Neumann... the buzzwords get updated
> every now and then.

That's close to saying that there's nothing new in human languages since
the invention of the alphabet :-)  Without computer language constructs
to form levels of abstraction, we'd be stuck in the days of primitive
machines. IMHO, procedural and data abstraction are as least as important.

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