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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Algol-68 down for the count (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?)
Message-ID: <1286@X.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 14:02:00 GMT
References: <388@ubbpc.UUCP> <16187@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <599@quintus.UUCP> <404@ubbpc.UUCP>
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In article <404@ubbpc.UUCP>, wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) writes:
> The primary "benefit" that I see in your institutions' choice of Algol-68 is
>that you write programs that nobody else can use, and that your students have
>to do extra work learning mainstream languages after they graduate.
> That sounds like a bad decision on the part of Nottingham U.

Teaching Algol-68 allows many institutions to expose their students to
interesting concepts in the design of computer languages.  Evidently you
prefer that they expose students only to BOTH concepts present in PASCAL
(straight jackets and rubber walls), so they can turn out the future
COBOL-drudges.

"Thunk" is not the sound of a PC hitting a desk.
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