Xref: utzoo comp.arch:12751 comp.lang.misc:3734 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc Subject: Late Bloomers Revisited Message-ID: <1TmbNv#4mK14j=eric@snark.uu.net> Date: 13 Dec 89 09:02:07 GMT Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Lines: 11 A couple of well-informed comp.arch regulars have suggested that I may have been a bit too peremptory in dismissing Algol68's influence on later language development. I will still argue vigorously that the Pascal family was founded on Algol-60 (consider the relative dates) but I admit that there's a case for tracing C casts and some aspects of its type system to Algol68. Would dmr or anyone else with certain knowledge care to comment? Followups to comp.lang.misc *only* this time... -- Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.uu.net (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)