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• ALGOL 68 -- An Austin Martin. An impressive car, but not just anyone can drive it.
• Algol 60 was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
  -- C. A. R. Hoare...
• Quote #6 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 neary all its successors....
• ALGOL 60 - Your father's wartime sweetheart, petite, well proportioned, and sweet tempered.
  She disappeared mysteriously during the war, but your dad still talks about her shapely form and their steamy romance....
• Pascal - A grammar school teacher, and Algol 60's younger sister.
  Like her sister she is petite and attractive, but very bossy....
• ALGOL 68 - Algol 60's niece. A high-society woman, well educated and terse.
  Few men can fully understand her when she talks, and her former lovers still discuss her mysterious personality....
• Were-Bender: Oh boy, I feel like a car in a candy store.
• This rental car is so small, I can't see the gas gauge...
• Algol is not just a sta