in reply to Re^3: Why "arguments"?
in thread Why "arguments"?

Actually, I was thinking of Indo-European as equivalent to C, which has fragmented into the many languages most of us use everyday.

But that likening will lead to another set of strange thoughts, like Finnish being Lisp, French being Bliss, ending with Chinese as APL.

Oh, and assembler as prehistoric. Ook!

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Re^5: Why "arguments"?
by ady (Deacon) on Aug 07, 2005 at 08:41 UTC
    Yes, or probably Fortran being the Indo-European Root of all higher computer languages...

    Welsh would be Cobol then (isn't the longest word known to man Welsh...?),
    To begin at the beginning; It is a spring, moonless night in the small town, tarless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the haunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat bobbing sea.     ... etc.

    And thats translated. Quite a jump there to C :
    {

    And Perl...? Hmmm, kindof Esperanto, maybe...
    La nokto rapide la ombrojn delasis,
    Dum alpan vilaĝon junulo trapasis;
    Li portis sur vojo la neĝa, glacia,
    Standardon, kun stranga devizo ĉi-tia:
    Excelsior!     or die;...

    allan
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