Subj : Re: year 11 maths survey
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 06:11 am

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Nixon said:
> Question 5 has some more problems. For one thing, C and C++ are two very
> different languages, and should not be lumped together.

C is almost a subset of C++, so I wouldn't say they are "very different".

> Knowledge of one 
> does not necessarily mean knowledge of the other.

C programmers can use C++ compilers.

> Secondly, you've 
> included some very old languages which are likely to have few followers
> nowadays (e.g. Algol, Modula, BCPL) and missed out some fairly popular
> ones (APL, Perl, C#).

OCaml, SML, Haskell, Mathematica, F#. I thought APL was an old language?

I'd appreciate it if the OP published the results. I'd like to know what
languages other people are using. :-)

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