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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Randy Kramer wrote:

> Aside: Scheme a descendant of Algol?  Wow!  Someday I'll have to dig
> into how they support that. ;-)
> 

IIRC, the original Algol was Algol 67 (?).  Scheme is a dialect of LISP
(Which does NOT stand for Lots of Insipid Stupid Parenthesis :-).  LISP
was invented by John McCarthy (originator of the term AI) in 1956.  So I
find the Algol->Scheme relationship unlikely.  
           
                                sam th               
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