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I want to learn C, for several reasons: * it's the granddaddy of all languages Let me introduce you to Cobol, Fortran and Lisp, all from the late 50s and
by rzzzwilson 4y ago
I want to learn C, for several reasons:
* it's the granddaddy of all languages
Let me introduce you to Cobol, Fortran and Lisp, all from the late 50s and very early 60s. Of those, I think Lisp can claim to be the most influential.
- signa11 4y agoyou forgot algol (or algol60 if you prefer), which begat (almost) all...
- rzzzwilson 4y agoAlgol built on ideas from Lisp. Although recursion was almost missing from Algol. Even many modern languages are still playing catchup with ideas from Lisp.
- signa11 4y agolisp the concept and lisp the implementation happened quite a while apart, and algol was somewhere in the middle (if i get my programming language genealogy right)