Steve was borrowing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL :
C. A. R. Hoare remarked: "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."
(This one is also mostly true. :-)
Arnold
Brantley Coile <brantleyco...@me.com> wrote:
> Steve Bourne said it about 7th Edition. I just asked him. He also said it
> turned out to be mostly true.
>
> > On Sep 1, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Adriano Verardo <adr.vera...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Brantley Coile wrote:
> >>
> >> I’m very grateful to still be using these tools. It’s a very personal
> >> thing but for someone who first used 6th Edition Unix, ed and the old
> >> shell, and used all the versions of Unix that followed, these tools, both
> >> acme and sam, rio and 8 1/2, are an improvement to all that proceeded them
> >> and followed them.
> > Cool.
> > Who said "Unix v7 (or 6 ?) is the major improvement of all subsequent
> > releases" ?
> > (or something similar, sorry for my poor spoken english)
> >> Brantley Coile
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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