11 Dec
2008
11 Dec
'08
5:23 p.m.
Paul Koning wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol_W says that it came
from Niklaus
Wirth (inventor of Pascal). That fits a vague memory -- it was a
proposed successor to Algol-60 but wasn't adopted and Algol-68 was
picked instead. This caused various big names of the time to go
ballistic; I still remember getting scorched by Dijkstra when I
mentioned Algol-68 to him (innocently; I didn't know any of the
background at the time).
I do believe that having Edsger Dijkstra had gone ballistic on you
probably gives you geek cred. 8-)
Peace... Sridhar