It's strange that it seems Czech and other Slavic languages have more in common with Finish than with English even though the official language evolution trees say something else. I guess it's because languages are fairly promiscuous and mix and match like mad.

In addition to this, you know that a seagull and a mosquito both have wings and fly while they're nearer from the evolutionary pov to us and to a Horseshoe crab respectively, don't you? Speaking of programming languages, in a another post of mine in this very thread I mentioned a question I had asked in p6l: it was "an out of curiosity one" the content of which seems now relevant to the point you raised as an example. Here it is:

I hope not to raise too much the noise/signal level on list, but I hav
+e a
question: I have had a long experience programming my HP28s pocket
calculator, and its RPN language that AFAIK is mostly the same as that
+ of
newer models, supported constructs of the form

  -> a b << ... >>

where C<< -> >> is a literal right arrow char and C<<< << >>> and C<<<
+ >> 
>>> are literal guillemets (delimiting blocks). Just wonder wether by 
+any 
chance *that* language has had any influence on the

  -> $x, $y { ... }

construct.

[download]

And the answer was: no!

In reply to Re^3: The Germanic language form by blazar
in thread The Germanic language form by Win

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