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From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: In computing, late-bloomers are usually never-bloomers
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Date: 11 Dec 89 21:45:56 GMT
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In <629274691.11005@myrias.com> Chris Thomson wrote:
> Algol68 in particular has been far reaching, even though the language itself
> is not used much anymore.  Algol-W, Pascal, Modula and Ada all owe their
> heritage directly to Algol68.  C was influenced heavily by Algol68.

Sorry, but this is quite wrong. You're thinking of Algol-60.

> PL/1 (may it fade away quietly) also contributed valuable lessons in language
> design.

Yeah. All negative, and all still unlearned by many of those who should know
better -- witness ADA. I wish PL/1's impact *had* been nonzero...

>         APL features keep popping up, for instance as vector-valued
> subscripts in F8X.

Sorry, you'll have to do better than this. PPL and even some versions of BASIC
had array-valued subscripting before APL.

This is wandering out of comp.arch's demesne. Followups to comp.lang.misc
please.
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