Re^4: Why "arguments"?

Actually, I was thinking of Indo-European as equivalent to C, which has fragmented into the many languages most of us use everyday.

But that likening will lead to another set of strange thoughts, like Finnish being Lisp, French being Bliss, ending with Chinese as APL.

Oh, and assembler as prehistoric. Ook!

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Re^5: Why "arguments"?
by ady (Deacon) on Aug 07, 2005 at 08:41 UTC

Fortran

Indo-European Root

To begin at the beginning; It is a spring, moonless night in the small town, tarless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the haunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat bobbing sea.

etc.

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Esperanto

La nokto rapide la ombrojn delasis,
Dum alpan vilaĝon junulo trapasis;
Li portis sur vojo la neĝa, glacia,
Standardon, kun stranga devizo ĉi-tia:
Excelsior!

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