From: Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T02:30:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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.

"the" country?

> 
> And let's not mention COBOL.