On 7 Aug 2008 13:04:00 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:02:33 -0400, Warp wrote:
>
>>   I always got the impression that COBOL was the "BASIC" of the 70's,
>
> Try the 60's. ;-)

And Lisp was the Haskell of 60-70s?
It was developed in 1958. Wow, that seems awfully early
for a language with such high level concepts.
And they say, any new high level language concepts devised
in today's modern languages are merely imitations of
what Lisp has had already for ages.

-- 
Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/

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