On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:37:23AM -0400, tedd wrote: <snip> > > Think about it -- why are all languages are looking more and more > alike? Why is it that you can jump from versions of BASIC to C, C++, > php, JAVA, javascript and others and not find yourself in a > completely foreign environment? You think that's by design? Or is > there something else going on? <snip> I suspect this is because the guys who create a new language learned programming in another language. So when they create a new language, to some extent, they pattern it after what they've learned elsewhere. And generally, there are typical ways that humans think about accomplishing programming tasks, which are reflected in the way that humans design programming languages. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
