[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

OMG :-O Let me then suggest: LisP (List Processing) AlgoL (Algorithmic Language) JavaScript (Pure unadulterated marketing BS. Should have been named something based on "LISP disguised as Java"[1].) NOW you tell me. This is why I prefer LISP./forward-Polish-notation. First you are told what will happen, and then you discover whom it will happen to, As Laurie Anderson would say, it's like a prophecy. Doesn't it? Doesn't it look? [2] (just-kidding (should-have-been it 'ForTran)) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4t672J3PvM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0lShWwy_Oc On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: > On 1/14/25 15:31, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > > > F90 was an extension to F77 and was entirely upwardly compatible with > > it, not an entirely new language. > > IMOHO, the most significant revision of the F77 standard by F90 was > that is was acceptable to spell the last 6 letters of the language in > lower case. (i.e. Fortran). In a way, that broke with the historical > sense of the name. It should have been ForTran. > > > F66 was important in a way, as vendor extensions had gone a bit wild. > (e.g. punch a B in column 1 and the arithmetic operators become boolean. > I think that was a feature in 7090 FMS/IBSYS). > > One defining characteristic of post-1980 languages was the assumption of > a binary radix, as opposed to systems like the 1401 or 7070, which were > decimal and lacked bitwise boolean operations. > > --Chuck > > >