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  3. May 2003

Re: programming language genealogy

Steve Richter wrote:
...
I would classify RPG as a framework type of a language, while the ones on
the chart are procedural. ( but then, postscript is on the chart and that
has some framework aspects to it. )
...

The languages in the chart fit several categories: procedural, functional, simulation, object-oriented, logic-programming, scripting. RPG (at least the more recent variants) fits in the category of procedural languages.

(Actually, I have a number of quibbles with the chart. For example, Python borrows more from Lisp than it does from C. And Ruby is not a "hardware description language".)

Cheers! Hans



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