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[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

RustyRooster: C is the root of all modern languages

FORTRAN: Am I a joke to you?

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No grandpa fortran, everybody loves you. Now let's get you back inside with cobol.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fortran is Proto-Indo-Germanic or whatever it's called again

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Lisp (specifically IPL) is Proto-Indo-European. All languages have unwittingly taken inspiration from it

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

LISP is too old to care any more.