mother tongues: tracing the roots of computer languages through the ages http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/tongues.jpg (hat tip: http://robotwisdom.com) at university, i learned algol, pl/1, lisp, apl, and cobol lotta good it does me now, eh couldn't instantiate my way out of a paper bag If Programming Languages were: Shooting your self in the foot http://www.hwnd.net/pub/ifos/shootfoot.stm (hat tip: http://rudy.ca/links.cfm?links=quatsch) rudy