From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2004-06-16T05:26:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] History of Languages poster from O'Reilly

Tyler Zesiger wrote:
> gabriele renzi wrote:
>> I wonder how big could the list become listing *all* the
>> languages..
> 
> It would probably be nearly 3000 langugages - 
> http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/langlist.htm

It makes no sense if you try to count all languages because what 
counts as an independent language is not so clear as it may seem at 
first sight. I don't think that GW-BASIC and VB (though they both 
call themselves a 'BASIC') are different dialects of the same 
language - they are different programming languages. But that is my 
personal opinion, others may have a different one. An even more 
demanding question: Should one just count assembler or should one 
count z80 assembler, x86 assembler, 68x assembler and so on as 
different languages?

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt