On 8 Feb 2010 at 14:25, Russ Bartlett wrote:
Having used both - Algol!?? Algol people viewed
Fortran people pretty
much the same way COBOL guys viewed RPG people.?
The curious thing is that the "portmanteu" languages, such as PL/I
(FORTRAN, COBOL, Algol) or Ada inevitably seem to be less popular
than the languages they were intended to supercede.
--Chuck