> Hmmm, ok, let's dig into the memory here for the "icky" stuff: > > Forth
Oh, come on. FORTH is the best language there is. Except for the library. It needs a better library. ;P > POP-11/POPLOG (mutters under the breath) > Smalltalk Don't really know enough about it to say much, but I am under the impression that Java owes a lot of its existence to Smalltalk (and to FORTH, too, come to think of it). > RPG/400 Now, now, just because you have to play tricks with the declarations to get any sort of procedural stuff happening, there's no reason to disparage it. It's still a "great" little way to describe a (certain kind of) report. :-/ > There are a ton of others, but those are the weirdest. Interesting that your top four are all what we used to call "fourth generation languages", and are direct contributors to the object-oriented approach to computer languages. -- Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
