Re: Killing VB softly with his song, Killing VB softly...with a so

Dennis,

As you can see in the scheme in my previous message is Fortran a kind of
mother of all symbolic languages. However it was very much based on algebra.

Cobol and Basic started more to be based on logic and description. (The
first part is of course as well algebra, the second less).

Cor


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