From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-10-11T13:56:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> Well, despite the fact that Chuck Moore cut his programming teeth on
> Burroughs Algol before creating Forth, I think Forth has little Algol in
> it other than the fact that it is stack-based.But C is a direct
> descendant of Algol -- Algol --> CPL --> BCPL --> B --> C. That may not
> be 90% of languages but it's got to be close to 90 percent of the code
> that's executed every day. :)
> 

Not to mention that Pascal is also descended from Algol, thus taking in
things such as Delphi.

But Algol is descended from Fortran, which, yes, is still in use ALL
over the country.

And let's not mention COBOL.


Hal