15 Mar
2023
15 Mar
'23
4:59 a.m.
From: Bakul Shah
In hindsight Algol68 may have been the last committee
designed language
that was good.
I do not grant your basic assertion. Hoare had it right: "ALGOL 60 [was] a
language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its
predecessors but also on nearly all its successors." That would definitely
include Algol68, which was a classic committee-designed nightmare.
Noel