On 27 Jan 2009, at 17:46, Mark Wieder wrote:
Dave-
Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 3:37:50 AM, you wrote:
Assembler/More Assembler/More Assembler/Dartmouth Basic/Assembler/
SNOBOL4/SPITBOL/LISP/C/Pascal/C++/RunRev/RealBasic/SQL/Objective-C
Starting to get off topic here,
Who cares?! lol
but I don't think SQL counts as a
language any more than HTML does, and for the same reason. My cutoff
point for the definition is support for conditional branching. Without
at least if-then-else constructs you can't do decision making, and so
you're just stringing macros together rather than programming.
I tend to agree, but I know plenty of SQL'ers that would disagree.
There is a kind of a branch structure in SQL but it isn't used to
transfer control, but rather to pick data.
That said, I don't think my history was linear:
Dartmouth Basic/assembly/more assembly/Forth/more
assembly/C/Pascal/C++/JavaScript/Java
| | |
| | |-Perl
| | |-Python/Ruby
| |-Visual Basic/VBA/VBScript
|-Hypercard/SuperCard/Rev
I forgot about JavaScript!
Did you use Dartmouth Basic on an old Teletype? I still have a paper
tape and listing of a Basic Program to draw a picture made up of
overprinted characters on a line printer!
All the Best
Dave
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