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> Every programming language used today is descended from FORTRAN As a matter of fact, everything didn't descend from FORTRAN. COBOL was heavily influenced by

> Every programming language used today is descended from FORTRAN As a matter of fact, everything didn't descend from FORTRAN. COBOL was heavily influenced by FLOW-MATIC which descended from the A-0 System. All three of these were created mostly due to the work of Grace Hopper, commonly called "the mother of COBOL."

quotemstr 13y ago
Lisp is also a language isolate. The first EVAL was written by hand in assembly.
beagle3 13y ago
APL did not descend from Fortran either - it wasn't even designed as a programming language - rather as a standard notation for algorithms