Re:Not Lisp again (2009)
by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:08PM
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> Lastly one wonders why we don't go calling all these C-like languages ALGOLs.
Referring to the broad Algol-family isn't uncommon (well, at least, I do it quite a bit.)
> Or less extremely, why don't we consider Python and Ruby to be the same family, or Java and C#? Those pairs are arguably more similar than the pair of Common Lisp and Scheme.
Java and C# are frequently described as being part of a single close language family (much closer than the broad Algol-family; sometimes in an intermediate-breadth family that also includes ), and Ruby and Python are much less similar than Scheme and Common Lisp.
Referring to the broad Algol-family isn't uncommon (well, at least, I do it quite a bit.)
> Or less extremely, why don't we consider Python and Ruby to be the same family, or Java and C#? Those pairs are arguably more similar than the pair of Common Lisp and Scheme.
Java and C# are frequently described as being part of a single close language family (much closer than the broad Algol-family; sometimes in an intermediate-breadth family that also includes ), and Ruby and Python are much less similar than Scheme and Common Lisp.