Algol 68 was quite a lot different from the previous version, from memory, and seems to have influenced everything else since, including C.
I wish I'd used '68 more when I had the chance. Alan Kay described computing as a 'pop culture' and I see his point--we don't often learn from history and we often re-invent things and 'solve' problems that have already been solved before :-) Roops On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, 13:32 Bob Bridges, < 00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I did a lot of coding in Algol during my time at a local University in the > late '70s. My impression at the time was that it had a serious paucity of > built-in functions, but that it enabled me to write my own and make them > easily available to my programs. So I stuffed a library full of I/O and > string-handling functions and got along just fine, it seemed to me. > > Haven't encountered it since; I don’t know what advances may have been > made in that arena. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* That sort of wit which employs itself insolently in criticizing and > censuring the words and sentiments of others in conversation is absolute > folly; for it answers none of the ends of conversation. He who uses it > neither improves others, is improved himself, nor pleases anyone. -Poor > Richard’s Almanack, 1756 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Rupert Reynolds > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2024 09:07 > > ....developing a language which is effectively the best bits (IMHO) of > Rexx, C and even older languages such as Algol 68 (much underrated in my > book) and hints of PL/1.... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
