About programing, a general question

[Colin Law]

On 17 December 2010 13:44, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> [...]
> Sorry, Colin,
> Beg to differ. FORTRAN was developed by IBM engineers in the 50ies while
> ALGOL is developed in the 60ties (therefore: ALGOL60).

FORTRAN was the father, between them they gave birth to most of the
rest, with the best ones taking after their mother.

Colin