Programming Language History [was Re: F/OS & the blind ]
Jon maddog Hall
maddog at li.org
Thu Dec 8 10:01:01 EST 2005
Paul,
p.lussier at comcast.net said:
> Lisp, as a language, has been around since 1959, making it the oldest
> programming language still in common use today.
Fortran was started in 1954, and released in 1957. Cobol was also released
in 1959. You can argue about the words "common use", but you should not argue
too loudly in the high performance computing arenas, nor in the business
circles.
md
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