From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,9019ec15d661ad71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gidf4fd2,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Date: 25 Jul 2008 23:30:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <185ee7f9-9d4f-4f49-8dbe-6b623b8a8223@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <887fc0a7-0a5a-4d2e-a9ea-eb9e32d6a818@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <807ef880-b2ac-4ac6-877c-21274e8ff4ab@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <26ec19b4-09fc-405b-a188-57b6ee5ca1a3@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <1ea2ce62-20e0-47f9-adc6-f60c569a594f@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <7bdd13a5-44d4-4940-bdba-22b7e3a718fe@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net vK75/qHGSMgvAKMTT88wNAcYwL9bIB4zMXrvwgS4BUoT4VchMs Cancel-Lock: sha1:1SbRWo7pSQP176a+cBRQd1vGcBk= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1339 comp.lang.lisp:4246 Date: 2008-07-25T23:30:58+00:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan wrote: > the Greek and Hebrew > alphabets are both more or less directly derived from the Phoenician > alphabet, and Egyptian hieroglyphics don't figure into it at all. actually, i believe the consensus is that the proto-semitic alphabet from which the phoenician alphabet developed, was directly derived from egyptian hieroglyphics. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)