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mud_dauber | 7 months ago

Kinda surprised to not see Forth listed.

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duskwuff|7 months ago

Forth was neat, but it was a bit of an evolutionary dead end. I'm not aware of any significant concepts from Forth which were adopted by other, later programming languages.

tengwar2|7 months ago

RPL (Reverse Polish Lisp, a high level language for HP calculators) possibly drew on it a bit, though the main antecedents are RPN and Lisp, and possibly Poplog (a Poplog guru was at HP at the time, but I don't know if he contributed).

ks2048|7 months ago

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xmcqdpt2|7 months ago

Did Forth inspire the stack-based VMs of python and java? I don't know about that part of CS history well, but a very large proportion of all code runs on stack based byte code interpreters.

drweevil|7 months ago

Or Lisp. Lisp is definitely not dead, but was definitely very influential.

tempaway43563|7 months ago

The article does touch on that:

"COBOL was one of the four “mother” languages, along with ALGOL, FORTRAN, and LISP."

unknown|7 months ago

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bitwize|7 months ago

Imho Lisp is deader than COBOL. Especially now that we've learned you can do the really hard and interesting bits of AI with high-performance number crunching in C++ and CUDA.