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In article <1949@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George Leach) writes:
>to the existing investment in software.  What other language (C) is
>available on everything from a PC up to a Cray?  Which languages
>and operating systems are being moved onto newer architectures?
Plenty of languages: FORTRAN, Pascal, and C.  I'm just waiting for
PC/DOS on a Cray ;-).

More seriously, I'm growing to appreciate Icon (programming C since
1977), but these (Ada(tm), C, Pascal, Fortran, Icon, Basic, etc.)
are all imperative languages.  I don't think I would teach introductory
programming using C.  It's just a personal preference that I use C.
Talk about LISP (one person mentioned Prolog).  What about
Smalltalk-80(tm)?  Simula-67?  Other declarative functional languages?
Backus is working on an interesting new language named FL.  VAL/ID/SISAL
are all interestig languages.  Maybe, we should talk about the
requirements of languages?  Performance was specifically placed second
with Ada because of problems in software development.  I don't know?
What's modern?  Wirth gives lots of Modula-2's credit to Mesa.
Talk to me about classes of languages.  Post the follow up.

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