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  • P Pete OHanlon

    I'm going to get flamed for saying this, but:

    Filip van der Meeren wrote:

    What do you guys(/girls) think about when you hear "an extinct (programming)language" ?

    VB. Seriously though, I tend to think of Forth, PICK and APL when it comes to extinct languages.

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    Filip van der Meeren
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    Forth is already done and the compiler can be found here on this website, so that is being kept alive... PICK is a language I never heard of before so that is interesting to look into, and so is APL. Thanks! PS: YES YOU SHOULD GET FLAMED FOR SAYING THAT, not for the VB part, thats true :laugh: , but for the fact that I don't want to cause a riot on this post. VB-people are already frustrated enough, we do not need to demotivate them any more by telling them they write stuff in a ancient, verbose and ugly language ;P ...

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    • J JudyL_MD

      Does anyone use LISP anymore? Judy

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      Filip van der Meeren
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      Yes many people, eMacs is written in it!

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      • F Filip van der Meeren

        I am currently devoting my time to old and almost extinct languages... The goal of my devotion is to make sure these languages aren't forgotten and to keep them alive by building compilers for them in .net/java. Currently the language that has my full attention is Simula. I have some documentation, and am building a compiler for it (in my spare time). But, here comes the question... What after Simula? What language should I focus on? What do you guys(/girls) think about when you hear "an extinct (programming)language" ? Please tell me...

        Don't you also love the code?

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        Have a look at this page http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml[^] :)

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        • F Filip van der Meeren

          I am currently devoting my time to old and almost extinct languages... The goal of my devotion is to make sure these languages aren't forgotten and to keep them alive by building compilers for them in .net/java. Currently the language that has my full attention is Simula. I have some documentation, and am building a compiler for it (in my spare time). But, here comes the question... What after Simula? What language should I focus on? What do you guys(/girls) think about when you hear "an extinct (programming)language" ? Please tell me...

          Don't you also love the code?

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          How far back into history do you want to go? PL/1 that I once used on a mini computer, and PLAN that I learned for use on ICL 1900 series Mainframe

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            Have a look at this page http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml[^] :)

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            Filip van der Meeren
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            Nice site

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            • L Lost User

              How far back into history do you want to go? PL/1 that I once used on a mini computer, and PLAN that I learned for use on ICL 1900 series Mainframe

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              Filip van der Meeren
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              As far as you can go (anything but machinecode, I would like to program a compiler for something like this: mov eax, ebx That would be to boring for me and it wouldn't compile easly to something like javabytecode or CIL.

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              • F Filip van der Meeren

                As far as you can go (anything but machinecode, I would like to program a compiler for something like this: mov eax, ebx That would be to boring for me and it wouldn't compile easly to something like javabytecode or CIL.

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                Luc Pattyn
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                Hi, this was the first non-Basic high-level language I ever used back in the seventies: Watfor[^] :)

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                • F Filip van der Meeren

                  I am currently devoting my time to old and almost extinct languages... The goal of my devotion is to make sure these languages aren't forgotten and to keep them alive by building compilers for them in .net/java. Currently the language that has my full attention is Simula. I have some documentation, and am building a compiler for it (in my spare time). But, here comes the question... What after Simula? What language should I focus on? What do you guys(/girls) think about when you hear "an extinct (programming)language" ? Please tell me...

                  Don't you also love the code?

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                  Robert Surtees
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                  How about SNOBOL / SPITBOL[^] Nothing to do with COBOL, btw. All about string processing.

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                  • F Filip van der Meeren

                    I am currently devoting my time to old and almost extinct languages... The goal of my devotion is to make sure these languages aren't forgotten and to keep them alive by building compilers for them in .net/java. Currently the language that has my full attention is Simula. I have some documentation, and am building a compiler for it (in my spare time). But, here comes the question... What after Simula? What language should I focus on? What do you guys(/girls) think about when you hear "an extinct (programming)language" ? Please tell me...

                    Don't you also love the code?

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                    BCPL[^], a distant ancestor of C/C++.

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                    • J JudyL_MD

                      Does anyone use LISP anymore? Judy

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                      funny you mention lisp... just the other day i wrote a AI app (which is purpose of lisp) in LISP.

                      Arsen

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