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Article #5902Re: Algol-68 down for the count (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?)
From: John Woods
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 14:02
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 14:02
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In article <404@ubbpc.UUCP>, wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) writes: > The primary "benefit" that I see in your institutions' choice of Algol-68 is >that you write programs that nobody else can use, and that your students have >to do extra work learning mainstream languages after they graduate. > That sounds like a bad decision on the part of Nottingham U. Teaching Algol-68 allows many institutions to expose their students to interesting concepts in the design of computer languages. Evidently you prefer that they expose students only to BOTH concepts present in PASCAL (straight jackets and rubber walls), so they can turn out the future COBOL-drudges. "Thunk" is not the sound of a PC hitting a desk. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu Science does not remove the TERROR of the Gods!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!mirror!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Algol-68 down for the count (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?) Message-ID: <1286@X.UUCP> Date: 23 Nov 88 14:02:00 GMT References: <388@ubbpc.UUCP> <16187@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <599@quintus.UUCP> <404@ubbpc.UUCP> Organization: Servants of the Great White Frog Lines: 18