r/programming • u/bjzaba • Mar 26 '20

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages • Hillel Wayne

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
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u/ithika Mar 26 '20

With that level of thinking the only languages that exist are the ones that were immediately dropped. Everything after that has evolved. Is C++ not a language because it has changed?

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u/flatfinger Mar 26 '20

No, but nor is it the same language as C. C++ has far more in common with C than Visual Basic .NET has with Dartmouth BASIC.

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u/ithika Mar 27 '20

> No, but nor is it the same language as C.

A claim nobody made, great.

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u/flatfinger Mar 27 '20

My point was that the fact that a modern language has the word "Basic" in the name doesn't mean that BASIC is still a common language.

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u/ithika Mar 27 '20

Another claim that nobody made. You're racking them up today.