From: slkpg3@gmail.com   
      
   >Personally, I'd say there's been precious little new in programming   
   >languages since Simula gave us OOP in the late 1960s.   
      
   Yes, and milestones prior to that were   
      
   assembly language - easier than binary coding   
   COBOL - promoting the use of descriptive identifiers   
      
   And some later significant developments were   
      
   C language - standardizing the syntax of procedural programming   
   Wintel - standardizing the sub-programming language layer   
      
   http://slkpg.byethost7.com   
      
   [Some of us who programmed in ANSI Standard Fortran 66 and PL/I 76   
   might take issue with the claim that C standardized procedural   
   programming. Standard high level procedural interfaces to operating   
   systems aren't new either, Burroughs had them in Algol in the 1960s.   
   -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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