Re: The Nerd Quotient

From: Randy Howard (randyhoward_at_FOOverizonBAR.net)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:03:18 GMT

In article <20041213212057.130$Mt@newsreader.com>, bill-godfrey@sunny-
daventry.invalid says...
> "Wx Plotter Announce" <announce@wxplotter.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Which of the following is not a real programming language?
> BASIC
> C++
> PASCAL
> Assembly
> FORTRAN
> COBOL

Of that list, only Assembly is a REAL programming language.

C should be on the list of course, and the rest are lame,
corruptions of better languages, or for teaching purposes.

:-)

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