ALGOL begat LISP?

Fri Jul 18 10:08:05 AEST 1986

In article <2334 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, rbj at icst-cmr.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> Put another way, and abstracting quite a bit, there are really only a
> few languages: fortran, cobol, PL/I, pascal, basic, and C ARE ALL
> THE SAME LANGUAGE (I know, that thought hurts). The OTHER languages
> are LISP, APL, SNOBOL, FORTH, and probably PROLOG and SMALLTALK, altho
> I don't know anything about the last two. They may even be `the same'.

I'd tend say that all the languages you mention except prolog are one
language, and prolog is the other one -- they're all procedural, while
prolog is declarative.  But when you look closer, the procedural languages
differentiate themselves pretty much as you describe them...

	Wayne