On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:24:03 +0000, Frank Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[a civilised summary of the C vs Transcript conversations...]
 including the remark

I understand Marc's desire that it would be nice if Transcript
supported C-like syntax, because most of the worlds computer languages
are C/Algol like (no need to comment if you have counterexamples that
all languages aren't C/Algol like...I believe you).

I just couldn't pass up the reference to Algol - I experienced a warm feeling that anyone would remember Algol, as I cut my programming teeth on it, initially by taking an algorithm in ACM by Donald Knuth for calculating the date of Easter and translating it into LISP - my first program! - and subsequently by completing an Algol compiler for a long-forgotten mainframe.


Just my nostalgic 2 pence (tuppence old Sterling, in this case).

Graham


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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France



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