Historical language survey

[kris]

Fredrik Olsson wrote:
> kris skrev:
> 
>> Just for fun, how many folks here have hands-on experience with any of 
>> the following languages?
>>
>> Algol
> 
> Nope
> 
>> Pascal
> 
> Hobby projects since 1988, professionally since 1995. I would hardly 
> classify Pascal as a historical language.
> 
>> BCPL
> 
> nope
> 
>> Ada
> 
> For a few months in 1999, army stuff.
> 
>> Modula
> 
> Only Modula-2, back in 1992 on Atari ST, and barely a few hundred lines 
> of code in Objective Modula-2 this year.
> 
>> Simula
> 
> nope.
> 
> 
> Since Pascal fits the bill I think you should also add LISP, FORTRAN, 
> COBOL, and Prolog :).


hehe ... the list is comprised of pure Algol derivatives. It ignores 
those with only a little Algol influence, such as Fortran-77 and PL1 for 
example. C & C++ are a true part of the Algol family, but pretty much 
everyone here has been exposed to those.

The 'historical' attribute was a poor choice of word on my part ~ 
intended only to tie into the derivation aspect (from Algol)