proliferation of computer languages

[Fredrik Lundh]

xahlee at gmail.com wrote:

> There is a proliferation of computer languages today like never
> before.

"... today ... 1,700 special programming languages used to
'communicate' in over 700 application areas." -- Computer Software
Issues, an American Mathematical Association Prospectus, July
1965. (as quoted in P. J. Landin's classic paper "The Next 700 
Programming Languages" from March 1966).