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Re: [colorforth] Hello - and where to begin?

Gwenhwyfaer wrote:

On 23/01/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well ... I've always thought there really were only three innovative
languages -- Lisp, APL and Forth. I view Haskell, ML, Prolog, Erlang,
and all the other functional languages as specialized dialects of Lisp.


I see where you're coming from, but Algol-60 belongs on that list as well.

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Actually, I did make a list once and I think Algol 60 was on it. The list IIRC was Macro Assemblers, Algol 60, Lisp (1.5), Forth, APL(\360) and Smalltalk. However, I really think Algol 60 could be replaced by FORTRAN without losing much -- there's not much in Algol 60 that isn't in FORTRAN or Lisp 1.5. 

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