Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick
From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: First language?
Message-ID: <2876@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Mar 90 11:32:29 GMT
References: <BZD4F2w160w@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh
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In-reply-to: paranoid@nstar.UUCP (Damian Gick)

In article <BZD4F2w160w@nstar.UUCP>, paranoid@nstar (Damian Gick) writes:
>Does anyone know what the name of the first high-level language was?

The lambda-calculus?

>| Damian Gick

		Nick.
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