24 Jun
2004
24 Jun
'04
2:11 a.m.
>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cisin
<cisin(a)xenosoft.com> writes:
Fred> But C++ claims to be a successor to C. C# claims to be a
Fred> successor to C++, although I don't know whether anybody outside
Fred> of MICROS~1 takes that seriously.
And C++ is sufficiently complex that its relation to C is rather
muddled...
> (Wasn't it Algol that was praised as being a
considerable
> improvement over its successors ?)
I can believe that. Then again, both Pascal and Modula-2 are
admirable languages. And personally I rather liked Algol-68 (from
which C++ borrowed a lot) -- even though it got me yelled at by
Dijkstra.
paul