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.
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.
-- C.A.R. Hoare, "Hints on programming language design"
Pascal n.
An Algol-descended language designed by
Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional
tool for elementary programming. This language, designed primarily
to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus
extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of
view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact,
became the ancestor of a large family of languages including
Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l
summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly
funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
C n.
1. The third letter of the English alphabet. 2. ASCII
1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis
Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement
Unix...
