Late Bloomers Revisited

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From: Eric S. Raymond
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 09:02

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A couple of well-informed comp.arch regulars have suggested that I may
have been a bit too peremptory in dismissing Algol68's influence on later
language development. I will still argue vigorously that the Pascal family
was founded on Algol-60 (consider the relative dates) but I admit that there's
a case for tracing C casts and some aspects of its type system to Algol68.

Would dmr or anyone else with certain knowledge care to comment?

Followups to comp.lang.misc *only* this time...
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.uu.net    (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)

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From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond)
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Subject: Late Bloomers Revisited
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Date: 13 Dec 89 09:02:07 GMT
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