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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Late Bloomers Revisited
Message-ID: <440@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 05:40:39 GMT
References: <1TmbNv#4mK14j=eric@snark.uu.net>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1TmbNv#4mK14j=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>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

Wirth (the 'father' of Pascal) was a member of the Algol68 committee, after
being involved in the design of the language he designed Pascal, he put in
many of the Algol68 features that were easy to implement and left out the
ones that were hard.

	Paul

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