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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: ALGOL begat LISP?
Message-ID: <881@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 20:08:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 17 20:08:05 1986
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In article <2334@brl-smoke.ARPA>, rbj@icst-cmr.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> Put another way, and abstracting quite a bit, there are really only a
> few languages: fortran, cobol, PL/I, pascal, basic, and C ARE ALL
> THE SAME LANGUAGE (I know, that thought hurts). The OTHER languages
> are LISP, APL, SNOBOL, FORTH, and probably PROLOG and SMALLTALK, altho
> I don't know anything about the last two. They may even be `the same'.

I'd tend say that all the languages you mention except prolog are one
language, and prolog is the other one -- they're all procedural, while
prolog is declarative.  But when you look closer, the procedural languages
differentiate themselves pretty much as you describe them...

	Wayne