Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!primerd!tiger1!efeustel From: efeustel@prime.com (Ed Feustel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: programming language names Keywords: names Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 13:46:03 GMT References: <3561@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <1991Jan13.072818.25834@convex.com> <6787@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Lines: 4 Nntp-Posting-Host: tiger1 I used IPL-V in 1965 to generate cryptograms while in an AI course at Princeton.It had several interesting concepts. The primary one was that Program was data and that you could operate on the program as if it were data. A secondary one was the concept of generators. The best embodiment of that in todays languages would appear to be in ICON with the concept of co-expressions.