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From: andree@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: popular 'programming' languages - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 23:33:40 EST
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uokvax!andree    Nov 30 17:57:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.lang / decwrl!baskett /  9:42 am  Nov 27, 1983 */
While Fortran and Cobol and Basic may have had their day, I suspect that
the most popular "programming language", both in terms of number of "programs"
and in terms of number of "lines" of code, is Visi-calc (or Multi-plan or
*-calc or *-plan).  While most of us may be willing to admit that the days
of the "glass teletype" are over, we may not have really recognized the
consequences of that change.
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I agree with your sentiment, but not your conclusion. If I had to choose
such a package, I'd pick on dBase II. Of course, all this brings up the
question

	`What is a programming language?'

Before I start spouting what I think of the answer, would someone who may
or may not have seen this on the net before tell us the conclusion(s) reached
last time.

	<mike