On Jan 28, 2005, at 15:38, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote: > There has been a progression in writing systems that could possibly be > said to > parallel the progression in programming systems: I like that... nice analogy... there is one obvious flaw with it though... the lack of a, er, "historical" perspective... after all... there are thousands of years separating Hyeroglyphics and Wordprocessors... In contrast... and to keep the "historical" perspective going... "programming languages" have been "invented" in the last few seconds... http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html Cheers -- PA, Onnay Equitursay http://alt.textdrive.com/