[cctalk] Re: Good computer books for 1960's computers

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Sep 29, 2026, at 7:57 PM, Jim Davis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> And all our daily driver languages look like Algol or FORTRAN,
> excepting Forth and APL, both written by mad scientists,

And Lisp.  And TECO. Also SNOBOL, I think.  And POP-2.

But yes, Algol-60 is the ancestor of most programming languages, in particular 
C and C++ (though C++ also borrowed a bunch from Algol-68).

        paul