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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: hypertalk
Keywords: hypertalk ai
Message-ID: <18130@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 89 17:05:55 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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      Has anyone else noticed the similarity of Hypertalk to COBOL-60?

Hypertalk:

	ADD a TO b
	DIVIDE a BY b
	GO TO c
	CLOSE FILE f
	SET x TO 1

COBOL-60:

	ADD a TO b.
	DIVIDE a BY b.
	GO TO c.
	CLOSE FILE f.
	SET x TO 1.

     In its day, COBOL-60 was touted as "natural language programming" too.

					John Nagle