Quadriga

Received Usage

By "Quadriga" I mean: Haskell, Lisp, Prolog and Smalltalk.

Lang and Parole

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Zum Singen ist die italienische Sprache, etwas zu sagen: die deutsche, darzustellen: die griechische, zu reden: die lateinische, zu schwatzen: die französische, für Verliebte: die spanische und für Grobiane: die englische

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The above stuck in my mind the first time I saw it in the first edition of Moderne Deutsche Sprachlere, the text used in my first German course.

Aphorism Perseverated

Received Programming Language Aspects of aii.biz System Applications
Systems Programming	Algol/C-nix/Lisp	WFL,DCP,MCP
General Applications Programming	Haskell	Application logic
Logic Programming	Prolog	RDF, Semweb,First Order KB
Host Abstraction	EC/Squeak/LLVM/Xen	GUI, Package Management, Operations Interface¹.

They are normally listed in latin lex order, the order having no other significance.
I maintain a presence (as 'Lycurgus') in the main IRC channels for each of the above.

aii.biz Design Intent

The design intent is that much external function in any other language (e.g. c-like langs, ruby, etc.) is integrated via WFL.

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¹SPO (a metonym for the Burroughs system console operator, originally "Supervisory Print Out").