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Article #3320Re: In computing, late-bloomers are usually never-bloomers
From: Eric S. Raymond
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 21:45
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 21:45
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In <629274691.11005@myrias.com> Chris Thomson wrote:
> Algol68 in particular has been far reaching, even though the language itself
> is not used much anymore. Algol-W, Pascal, Modula and Ada all owe their
> heritage directly to Algol68. C was influenced heavily by Algol68.
Sorry, but this is quite wrong. You're thinking of Algol-60.
> PL/1 (may it fade away quietly) also contributed valuable lessons in language
> design.
Yeah. All negative, and all still unlearned by many of those who should know
better -- witness ADA. I wish PL/1's impact *had* been nonzero...
> APL features keep popping up, for instance as vector-valued
> subscripts in F8X.
Sorry, you'll have to do better than this. PPL and even some versions of BASIC
had array-valued subscripting before APL.
This is wandering out of comp.arch's demesne. Followups to comp.lang.misc
please.
--
Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.uu.net (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!rutgers!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: In computing, late-bloomers are usually never-bloomers Message-ID: <1TllB5#1nPns2=eric@snark.uu.net> Date: 11 Dec 89 21:45:56 GMT References: <24317@cup.portal.com> <480@dmk3b1.UUCP> <1989Nov28.104128.8045@hellgate.utah.edu> <1Tcfjq#9jMTbv=eric@snark.uu.net> <3511@convex.UUCP> <1933@eric.mpr.ca> <1TfOZ0#142gXX=eric@snark.uu.net> <629274691.11005@myrias.com> Sender: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Lines: 23