1 Oct
2014
1 Oct
'14
7:03 a.m.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rich Alderson
Sent: 01 October 2014 02:43
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Who is the world's oldest working programmer?
From: Dave G4UGM
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 10:41 AM
I thought there already was a "P" and a "D" ...
> From: Eric Smith
> Sent: 27 September 2014 09:12
> Note however that neither FORTRAN nor COBOL
were successors of
ALGOL.
> Almost all other programming languages are
either successors of
> ALGOL, or at least have appeared sufficiently later than the
> appearance of ALGOL that they should have tken some lessons from
> ALGOL (either positive or negative).
Many seem to trace their ancestry to BCPL, how
does this relate to
Algol...
IIRC, BCPL was block-structured a la Algol. It was, of course, the direct
ancestor of B, which is the direct ancestor of C. We all know that the proper
successor to C will be named P.
Rich Alderson
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