Re: Basic questions

From: C Rode (crode_at_notmail.com)
Date: 12/30/03

  • Next message: Jud McCranie: "Re: Basic questions" 
    Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 04:40:46 GMT

    > >Yeah, Basic is based on Fortran (of the 50's) and there is no similarity
    > >between Pascal and Basic.
    >
    > Not originally, but in my opinion, modern implementations of BASIC and
    > Pascal are getting more alike.
    >

    That raises questions. For instance when did programming languages in
    general develop loops and subroutines (and functions) ? I wouldn't punish a
    language for not having features before the features were generally
    available in the development of programming languages. Fortran was in the
    early 50's while Basic began in the early 60's.

    Also, Basic is based on Fortran while as was said Pascal is based on ALGOL.
    But what is Fortran based on and what is ALGOL based on ? What was the first
    high-level langauge with a commercial or academic following ?

    Finally, rate the relation of langauges by their distance apart on a family
    tree of high-level language...

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