On Mar 9, 2010, at 18:10 , Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Algol 68 is notorious as a failure. Let's hope things are different here.
As a programming language, it was a failure, in large part because it was a bit too forward-looking for the available compiler technology. (It's still a bit tough, but a lot easier than it was in the late 60s, and there is an open source Algol 68 compiler.) However, it shaped an entire generation of programming languages, and the URL I posted earlier demonstrates that language design that ignores Algol 68 is prone to reinvent its concepts, poorly.
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