Probably negative inspiration due to its complexity.... what to NOT do.
;)
On 8/9/2015 4:39 AM, ANDY HOLT wrote:
And one should
not forget Algol.
60 or 68?
(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)