It is always good to be reading Dijkstra. He was a treasure. His observations were those of the computing world, and combined with IBM’s dominance and desire behind PL/1, created the dead zone from which C saved us all.
Unfortunately the good of these dead ends was lost, and the good of Algol68 was never even understood. I don’t long for them, but I miss their DNA being in the mix. On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:53 AM Jamie Clarkson <jnc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happened to be randomly rereading through the EWD archives and came upon > this simultaneously with reading this thread: > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD230.html > > (no comment!) > > Jamie > > On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 7:57:07 AM UTC, Tom Mitchell wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:48 PM Michael Jones <michae...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> interesting! i wish algol 68 had had its chance. >>> >> >> Well, "It ain't over till it is over." >> >> http://algol68.sourceforge.net/ >> >> ".... multiple licenses that should be read carefully: it is open source >> software, but not all components are fully free...." >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:40 PM Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:13:04 -0800 Michael Jones <michae...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>> >>> ... >> >>> >>>> Algol-68 allowed this by design. No hack required! The value >>>> of a sequence of expressions was the last expression. It also >>>> >>> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Michael T. jonesmichael.jo...@gmail.com <michael.jo...@gmail.com>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
