4 ms·
All programming languages were derived from Fortran? Really?
by nv-vn 10y ago
All programming languages were derived from Fortran? Really?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- sevensor 10y agoThis point and the few exceptions to it are addressed in the footnotes. I was skeptical too, particularly of the claim that the lisp family tree is rooted in Fortran, but the claims seem to be pretty well researched.
- nv-vn 10y agoMaybe, but there are plenty of languages I would say are completely independent -- APL, Prolog, and Forth don't seem to resemble Fortran in any major way. At least Lisp shares the same notion of functions=subroutines.