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It's amusing that a language called "Ur" is built on antecedent languages.

• culi 3y ago
  Ur the city was also built on antecedent cities and cultures. And what programming language isn't built on an antecedent language?
  • samatman 3y ago
    There's the city of Ur, but there is also the prefix ur-, meaning primitive or original. What programming language isn't built on an antecedent language? Why, the ur-language, of course! Arguably, this is FORTRAN.
    • Jtsummers 3y ago
      I was curious so looked it up. FORTRAN had a predecessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcoding.
      • culi 3y ago
        which itself was influenced by some sort of assembly language and even machine code