On 18/11/17 21:15, pasc...@piments.com wrote:
On 18/11/17 20:27, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> because the program is
being viewed critically by the ALGOL programmer > whose code
Algol, one my all time favourite languages.
while .... wendif .... fi
why is this not universally adopted?
I still comment my C code with fi's and wend's to keep track of what a
bunch of curly braces actually refer to.
/Don't/ get me going, particularly here. Basically, because Wirth threw
his toys out of the pram when ALGOL-W was rejected, and rushed out
Pascal as an alternative without looking at the few bits of ALGOL-68
which were useful for something. He didn't come to his senses until
Modula-2 or his involvement with Ada (I'm not sure which came first) but
by then the damage was done.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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