On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 19:40 +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > Tony Hoare once said, "The amazing thing about Algol was it was such > an improvement over most of its successors."
Not having a defined I/O facility didn't help Algol. An undergraduate prof of mine (George Haynam, did the SDS Algol 60 compiler) claimed that this was the source of Algol's unpopularity in the US. Maybe he was right. -- David Andrews A. Duda & Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
