Oldest and greatest programming language

[Ben Sprinkle]

Have you guys ever thought about it?

Math and algebra dates centuries back, I mean it is essentially the human programming language sort of. It has variables, follows some stuff in modern languages and you don't even need to declare!
Example:
X + 3 = 5

Clearly X = 2, but this is just a mind blowing thing if you think about it.

Comments?

[Josh1]

I love it, learnt it when I was like 10 when I was bored, helped me through highschool lol.

[Ben Sprinkle]

Yes it's so useful, literally everything around you was made with math and I mean literally!

[hod139]

Have you guys ever thought about it?

Math and algebra dates centuries back, I mean it is essentially the human programming language sort of. It has variables, follows some stuff in modern languages and you don't even need to declare!

Math and algebra? Algebra is a branch of mathematics, tracing back to the Babylonians. As far as how far back math dates, who knows?

The branch of mathematics most closely related with programming languages is lambda calculus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus), and is actually Turing complete.

[Ben Sprinkle]

I think math would be like C and Algebra is like C++.
Lol Math++. :)

[lnostdal]

Have you guys ever thought about it?

Math and algebra dates centuries back, I mean it is essentially the human programming language sort of. It has variables, follows some stuff in modern languages and you don't even need to declare!
Example:
X + 3 = 5

Clearly X = 2, but this is just a mind blowing thing if you think about it.

Comments?



(%i1) solve(x + 3 = 5, x);
(%o1) [x = 2]
(%i2)


..that was from Maxima - which is written in one of the oldest and greatest _computer_ programming languages of all time; Lisp. :)

Common Lisp is probably the most relevant Lisp-dialect at the moment. Here are some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
http://wiki.alu.org/RtL%20Highlight%20Film
..etc..