On: Study finds 'mother of all languages' (spoken in pre-historic Africa)

[JoeAltmaier]

BASIC has a lot of different statement types (phonemes). It must be the mother of all languages!

[ppod → JoeAltmaier]

statements would be morphemes wouldn't they? I think characters would be phonemes... perl?

[sp332 → ppod]

APL, no doubt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols#Monadic_... Here's a video that shows how to make Conway's Game of Life in a single line of APL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?fmt=18&v=a9xAKttWgP4

[JoeAltmaier → ppod]

Assembler then - hundreds of opcode mnemonics. And you could actually make a case for it being the mother language.

[sukuriant → JoeAltmaier]

I'm sorry, but that award goes to another: PL/1