On Sep 30, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Robert Prins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Pascal is like an improved PL/I, Ada is an improved Pascal. > > I would rather say that Pascal is a very inferior copy of PL/I. Pascal was written by Niklaus Wirth as a teaching language to instruct programmers in the principles of structured programming. PL/I was developed by an IBM team to be the "one language to rule them all," replacing COBOL for business programming and FORTRAN for scientific programming. Neither is a copy of the other, although both were heavily influenced by Algol. Bu then, almost all languages developed after Algol were heavily influenced by it. Tony Hoare once said, "The amazing thing about Algol was it was such an improvement over most of its successors." -- Curtis Pew ([email protected]) ITS Systems Core The University of Texas at Austin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
