30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
6:43 p.m.
From: Dave G4UGM
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 10:41 AM
> 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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