6 Oct
2017
6 Oct
'17
3:33 a.m.
On Oct 5, 2017, at 6:01 PM, Steve Simon
<steve(a)quintile.net> wrote:
I remember:
"Version 7 was an improved on everything that preceeded it,
and everything that followed".
A variation of C.A.R.Hoare's quip in his 1973 paper "Hints on
Programming Language Design"
The more I ponder the principles of language design, and
the techniques which put them into practice, the more is my
amazement and admiration of ALGOL 60. Here is 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.