Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
by tannhaeuser on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:46AM
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This. And while we're at it, we shouldn't discount awk which had a profound impact on Self (and ultimately JavaScript) syntax, in turn. So much so, in fact, that the following pointless code (which doesn't even show JavaScript/awk regexp constants) is both JavaScript and awk:
Edit: but awk doesn't belong onto the list because it's far from dead
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