9 Aug
2015
9 Aug
'15
8:39 a.m.
On Aug 9, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at
mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
Algol 60, that is. It was used as the inspiration by just about everything that followed,
sometimes very clearly and cleanly (Pascal, Modula), sometimes less so (C). And sometimes
a designer created a total botch based on gross misunderstanding of Algol (Jovial).
Algol 68 is a very different and much more complex language. It didn?t go far and wasn?t
nearly as influential, though Arne Stroustrup mentions its influence on C++ (and this is
pretty obvious when you look at C++ stream I/O).
From: Johnny Billquist
And one should not forget Algol.
IIRC, Algol is mentioned in the paper I linked to. Of course, Algol's DNA is
in pretty much every procedural language ever created since it was. From: Andy Holt
(and, for that matter, PL/1 should probably be
considered an unsung
inspiration for C as it was the implementation language for Multics
in which Bell labs was a partner and must have inspired at least
the name for Unix)
The paper also mentions PL/I - IIRC, they (Ken, Dennis et al) had used it on
Multics, and didn't like it. (Which I can understand!) I'm not sure there are
any ideas from PL/I (specifically) which influenced C.