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
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 languages listed
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
figuring out how