nemesis wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> Perhaps you're forgetting that Haskell is also 20 years old?
>>>   Hence a complete newcomer as programming languages are concerned.
>> Not nearly as new as the likes of Java, Python, Ruby, etc. But sure, not
>> as ancient as Lisp or C...
> 
> I believe Haskell is older than those.  Haskell was to be a kind of open
> reimplementation of Miranda, which was developed in the early 80's.  It adopted
> most of Miranda's syntax, and if some of that sounds weird, it is because C++
> was still being developed back then as well...

Apparently Miranda was released 1985, making it "only" 5 years older 
than Haskell. So even Miranda is "only" 25 years old.

To me, 25 years sounds like a hell of a long time in computing terms. 
But what do I know?

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