I don't know Algol, but I think you're correct:
http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html


On Dec 29, 1:14 pm, jim <jim.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Had an interesting conversation with a programmer friend of mine. He's
> skeptical of my Lisp leanings and mostly sticks to the 'normal'
> languages; C++, Java, etc.
>
> I made that comment that pretty much all the languages derived from
> Algol like the C family, Java, Pascal, etc. were pretty much the same.
> He looked at me like I was insane. :) :)
>
> I guess when you're looking back on the world from the vantage point
> of s-expressions, they do look the same. IMHO. :) Erlang and Haskell
> would have a similar effect, I would suspect.
>
> Jim

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