Re: Mesa is a dreadful language? (look all are ALGOL based)

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From: Eugene Miya N.
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1987 01:31

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This is an amazing discussion.  {Anybody for angel dancing on pin
heads?}  Look, they are all imperative languages: C [my personal day to
day language], Pascal [sorry, I have my name on the early standards
document], ALGOL [58,60,68], CLU [my favorite language which I can't
use], Modula (1 and 2 [`cleaned' up Mesa]), Mesa, PL/1, Ada, Jovial,
CORAL, even FORTRAN is looking more and more ALGOL like.  Sure, there
are slight differences in syntax rules: cascading cases, strong typing,
etc., but they are all basically the same.  LISP is different. Simula is
different (throw Smalltalk here).  Make comparison in this area (how
about TECO and PostScript as programming languages...;-)

From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
  "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
  "Send mail, avoid follow-ups.  If enough, I'll summarize."
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