It seems to me that what he was railing against was the design-by-committee approach? Having never studied Algol68 it's hard to say but skimming the wiki page parts of it could be transposed directly into one about Go so I'm not sure the DNA is totally gone, just we're lucky to avoid the committee :)
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:52:19 PM UTC, Michael Jones wrote: > > 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 <jnc...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > *Michael T. jonesmichae...@gmail.com <javascript:>* > -- 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.
