Ok, today's Wikipedia learned me few things.

One is the term “von neumann programnig lang”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_programming_languages

effectively, that's those of C, C++, Java, sh, perl and the bunch of
garbage to no ends.

In short, “von neumann programnig lang” are those modeled on computer
hardware. Namely, storage, control flow. (thus the bunch of garbage
such as memory address, pointers, file handle, (and, lisp's cons))

I find the discovery of this term very illuminating. I used to use
pages of words to describe the low-level ness that exhibit in these
stupid langs. The term “von neumann programnig lang” gives a concise,
quotable, insight on why it is so.

Lets start to throw the jargon “von neumann programnig language” in C,
C++, Java, Perl etc newsgroups. Seriously. It'll help educate society.

* * *

i also learned today, about what's called “functional-level
programing”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function-level_programming

Xah Lee wrote:
«
...
In short, “Von Neumann programnig lang” are those modeled on computer
hardware. Namely, storage and control flow. (thus the bunch of garbage
such as memory address, pointers, file handle (and lisp's cons).)

I find the discovery of this term very illuminating. I used to use
pages of words to describe the low-level ness that exhibit in these
stupid langs. The term “Von Neumann programnig lang” gives a concise,
quotable, insight on why it is so.
...
»

I have now extended a bit this essay, with a perm url at:
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/hardware_based_langs.html

Here's the added paragraph:

He had designs for better systems but died before he was able to impliment
them.

As for why he did it the way he did, please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church-Turing_thesis

On Aug 20, 5:56 pm, "Mr. X" spam.net> wrote:

in newsgroup, one indication that the poster is some kinda of
sophomoronic idiot, is whether they mention such things as Godel's
theorem or turing complete.

Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄

Please see your doctor about your prescription.

X

Mr. X wrote:

Please see your joke book about material to avoid at all costs because
it is so predictable, unimaginative, overused, and other bad stuff I
cannot remember, it will be in the book.

hth, Y