Re: [DNG] OT: Algol w, 68, Pascal, Ada

2016-07-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:23:39PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > So let's say these languages share a few typical features: instructions > > go across lines and they terminate with ';' (introduced by Algol60 I think), > > they use ':=' for the assignment instruction, they use the same words to

Re: [DNG] OT: Algol w, 68, Pascal, Ada

2016-07-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:44:47AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 04/07/2016 19:25, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > >On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:32:38AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > >> Ada also. BTW, Ada is considered a descendant of Pascal, which is a > >>descendant of Algol68 :-) > >More a relative.

Re: [DNG] OT: Algol w, 68, Pascal, Ada

2016-07-05 Thread Peter Olson
> On July 5, 2016 at 4:44 AM Didier Kryn wrote: [...] > > Ada resembled Pascal syntactically, but had very different semantics. > > For one thing, it was type-safe. Pascal wasn't. I'm not sure > > I'd really call it a descendant. > > > > > Cheers Hendrik. You know this history much bett

Re: [DNG] OT: Algol w, 68, Pascal, Ada

2016-07-05 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 04/07/2016 19:25, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:32:38AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 03/07/2016 23:17, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 01:36:14PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote: Can I download your compiler that fixes all my mistakes? I could really use such

[DNG] OT: Algol w, 68, Pascal, Ada

2016-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:32:38AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 03/07/2016 23:17, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > >On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 01:36:14PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote: > > > >>Can I download your compiler that fixes all my mistakes? I could really > >>use such a tool. > >Yes, as a matter of fa