Jeremy Epstein wrote:
Kevin Wall pointed to http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml as a good
source point; several of the languages I programmed in aren't listed (e.g.,
PL/360, which in many respects was to the IBM 360 as C was to the PDP/11).
Throughout the 1970s (and maybe even 1980s) a res
At 1:03 PM +0930 8/1/04, Nick Lothian wrote:
>> >IMHO, though, any such effort is pointless. The reality is
>> that we're going
>> >to be stuck with C/C++, Java, C#, FORTRAN, COBOL, and various
>> >interpreted/scripting languages for a very long time.
>What are peoples opinions of the language
> >IMHO, though, any such effort is pointless. The reality is
> that we're going
> >to be stuck with C/C++, Java, C#, FORTRAN, COBOL, and various
> >interpreted/scripting languages for a very long time.
> Rather than argue
> >about what makes something good/better, we'd be better off
> figuri
