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		7thaccount on May 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The seven programming ur-languages (2021) Cobol or Mumps for sure. I think Ada is close enough to Algol to not need its own category.

rwmj on May 5, 2023 [–]

Ah Mumps. I did a very little bit of programming in that. It should definitely be on a list, but maybe not this one. Perhaps the "languages you should run away from screaming" list :-)

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