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I think you could make a case for including Ada and/or COBOL, separately from ALGOL. Ada is/was an early attempt to remove errors from programming, and COBOL w
by rwmj 4y ago
I think you could make a case for including Ada and/or COBOL, separately from ALGOL. Ada is/was an early attempt to remove errors from programming, and COBOL was an attempt to make a "business language" that would be understandable by suits.
- 7thaccount 4y agoCobol or Mumps for sure. I think Ada is close enough to Algol to not need its own category.
- rwmj 4y agoAh Mumps. I did a very little bit of programming in that. It should definitely be on a list, but maybe not this one. Perhaps the "languages you should run away from screaming" list :-)