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What other language families are there, apart from C and ML languages? Lisp, maybe? Maybe dataflow or logic programming?
by AlexanderDhoore 12y ago
What other language families are there, apart from C and ML languages? Lisp, maybe? Maybe dataflow or logic programming?
- Dewie 12y agoPascal?
- nextos 12y agoThis is a very interesting and complex question. CTM provides some answers, summarized in http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf
- pjmlp 12y agoAlgol family, which C definitely isn't part of. It is composed by Mesa, Cedar, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Oberon-07, Ada, Spark, ParaSail, ...
- Someone 12y agoIf you zoom out far enough, few (for example, from a few miles away with my eyes almost closed, I would put Algol and C in the same family: procedural and with block scoping). There are quite a few distinctly other languages, though. To name a few: APL, COBOL, Forth, sed, Snobol.