Talk:Timeline of programming languages: Difference between revisions

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:Another point: If the legend is to have any meaning, shouldn't we also abide by its parenthesis notation for designating non-universal proglangs? [[VisiCalc|VISICALC]], for instance, is categorized as a ___domain-specific language, and as such should be marked as non-uni. Or is "universal" to be understood as any language capable of simulating a [[Turing machine]]? (in which case a proglang is to be ''very'' restricted not to be considered "universal", even though it may be thoroughly impractical for doing anything else than ___domain-specific tasks). --[[User:Wernher|Wernher]] 04:22, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I've replaced the asterisks in the table with ''"none (unique language)"'' to match what the key was saying - would this still make sense if it just said "none"? Despite ''"( Entry ) means a non-universal programming language" didn't' seemin tothe refer to anythingkey, asnothing noneactually ofseemed theto entrybe titlesmarked areup inas parenthesesbeing this, so I've removed the legend entirely. --[[User:McGeddon|McGeddon]] ([[User talk:McGeddon|talk]]) 10:4047, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

== Red and Blue ==