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On Sunday 31 July 2016 12:39:00 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 01:31:42 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve@pearwood.info>
>
> declaimed the following:
> >And you know what? That's fine. It's *good* that there are language
> >designers with different ideas of what's valuable. That gives us a
> > rich eco-system of languages to pick and choose from. Can you
> > imagine if everyone thought the same way and valued the same things?
> > We have *one* language, and it would probably be COBOL.
>
> FORTRAN

Nah, Forth.
> --
> 	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
>     wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/


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