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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,

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