I'm sad to learn in life that programming languages, and so many other things I thought were objective, turn out to be mostly a function of human trendy tribalism 🙂
-- Roger Arrick -- Tyler, Texas, USA -- [email protected] -- ________________________________ From: Wayne S via cctalk <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 3:31 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> Cc: Wayne S <[email protected]> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows Re: “Algol seemed to vanish off the face of the earth. “ I think the popularity of languages is due to how trendy they are to teach in Colleges. Witness the popularity of Python. That’s being taught in school these days. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 13, 2025, at 13:11, Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Algol seemed to vanish off the face of the earth.
