On Sunday, 13 January 2019 01:40:14 UTC+2, David Collier-Brown wrote: > > [ ... ] > Anyone here remember how algol68 addressed that, or what the hollering was > about? > > It's too easy, forty years later, to label algol68 a success. From my very remote location and no social media at the time, I clearly recall a lot more criticism than welcome. Wirth's Algol-W got a better reception, at the time when pragmatism was still second-fiddle to academic "purity" and, I seem to recall, justly so.
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