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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, anon@anon.org alleged:

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|"[..]                                                                |
|                                                                     |
|APL/B/BCPL -- from late 50s .. late 70s                              |
|                   replaced with  "C" aka newer version.             |
|C/C++/D    -- from 74 .. Now.                                        |
|           -- "D" is the newest version replaces C and C++           |
|              "C++" is wide spread in all classes. C/C++ slowly      |
|              replace all other older lang "Cobol" and "Fortran"     |
|              in clasees.                                            |
|              Also, due to fact that these lang are based on "APL"   |
|              it makes the set, one of the OLDEST lang around.       |
|              This 50+ year lang set should of died a few years ago."|
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APL is not related to any other language which you mentioned. Before
APL2 it could not even be programmed with an
AZWERTY/ASCII/EBDIC/QWERTY keyboard.

|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Ada   83 .. 98  -- only taught in gov't sponsor classes. Teacher   |
|                   had to be certified in Ada before 98.            |
|      After 98  -- problem is, not enough teachers that know Ada"   |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

What was so special about 98?

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|"Languages that are for net and have little to no interest to main  |
|stream programers that want to deal with the native CPU.            |
|                                                                    |
|[..]"                                                               |
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Web and/or GUI (but not native CPU) programming is mainstream.