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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Joel Rees <jo...@alpsgiken.gr.jp> on 2003/01/30 06:20:05 UTC
[Friday] Obscure (?) Computer Languages
> Hmmm, ok, let's dig into the memory here for the "icky" stuff:
>
> Forth
Oh, come on. FORTH is the best language there is. Except for the library.
It needs a better library. ;P
> POP-11/POPLOG
(mutters under the breath)
> Smalltalk
Don't really know enough about it to say much, but I am under the
impression that Java owes a lot of its existence to Smalltalk (and to
FORTH, too, come to think of it).
> RPG/400
Now, now, just because you have to play tricks with the declarations to
get any sort of procedural stuff happening, there's no reason to
disparage it. It's still a "great" little way to describe a (certain
kind of) report. :-/
> There are a ton of others, but those are the weirdest.
Interesting that your top four are all what we used to call "fourth
generation languages", and are direct contributors to the
object-oriented approach to computer languages.
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Joel Rees <jo...@alpsgiken.gr.jp>
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Re: [Friday] Obscure (?) Computer Languages
Posted by Nick Sharples <ni...@runtime-collective.com>.
alexj writes:
> Eiffel is still the best language for me
At Uni we used a functional language called ML and I used to think
that was the coolest language ever.
..Nick
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Re: [Friday] Obscure (?) Computer Languages
Posted by alexj <al...@freesurf.ch>.
Eiffel is still the best language for me
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Subject: [Friday] Obscure (?) Computer Languages
> > Hmmm, ok, let's dig into the memory here for the "icky" stuff:
> >
> > Forth
>
> Oh, come on. FORTH is the best language there is. Except for the library.
> It needs a better library. ;P
>
> > POP-11/POPLOG
>
> (mutters under the breath)
>
> > Smalltalk
>
> Don't really know enough about it to say much, but I am under the
> impression that Java owes a lot of its existence to Smalltalk (and to
> FORTH, too, come to think of it).
>
> > RPG/400
>
> Now, now, just because you have to play tricks with the declarations to
> get any sort of procedural stuff happening, there's no reason to
> disparage it. It's still a "great" little way to describe a (certain
> kind of) report. :-/
>
> > There are a ton of others, but those are the weirdest.
>
> Interesting that your top four are all what we used to call "fourth
> generation languages", and are direct contributors to the
> object-oriented approach to computer languages.
>
> --
> Joel Rees <jo...@alpsgiken.gr.jp>
>
>
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Re: [Friday] Obscure (?) Computer Languages
Posted by Tony Baity <to...@yahoo.com>.
I know of some folks that put a few satellites in orbit that run on Forth. There is nothing quite like having your hands right on the program stack. :)
M (the language formally known as MUMPS)... the database is the code / the code is the database... the whole DB structure looks like DOM with nodes and tree walking and everything.... I hear that is was good for fast fourier transforms though for pattern recognition of sounds, images, etc.
Joel Rees <jo...@alpsgiken.gr.jp> wrote:> Hmmm, ok, let's dig into the memory here for the "icky" stuff:
>
> Forth
Oh, come on. FORTH is the best language there is. Except for the library.
It needs a better library. ;P
> POP-11/POPLOG
(mutters under the breath)
> Smalltalk
Don't really know enough about it to say much, but I am under the
impression that Java owes a lot of its existence to Smalltalk (and to
FORTH, too, come to think of it).
> RPG/400
Now, now, just because you have to play tricks with the declarations to
get any sort of procedural stuff happening, there's no reason to
disparage it. It's still a "great" little way to describe a (certain
kind of) report. :-/
> There are a ton of others, but those are the weirdest.
Interesting that your top four are all what we used to call "fourth
generation languages", and are direct contributors to the
object-oriented approach to computer languages.
--
Joel Rees
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