Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Wirth-ian languages Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:10:51 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.misc:2051 On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:59:12 -0400, Rod Pemberton wrote: > I think it's dead. Most people on other newsgroups seem to argue > against me though when I say language 'X' or 'Y' or 'Z' is dead. > Other than BASIC, I think the languages of our era (being presumptuous > here) learned are dead: COBOL, FORTAN, Pascal, LISP, PL/I, Forth, Delete "learned", editing error. RP