From: cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeld man@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: forth/fifth generation languages?
Date: 10 Aug 93 02:38:01 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Aug10.023801.14891@seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In article <EACHUS.93Aug9150728@spectre.mitre.org> eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Ro
bert I. Eachus) writes:
>In article <1993Aug9.100625.462@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
writes:
>
> > Of course, to some of us, the peak is called "Algol-60", and C is
> > a deep trench filled with primordial ooze.
>
> Come on, Robert, everyone knows that Algol-W was a significant
>improvement on Algol-60. (If you consider Algol-W to be a dialect of
>Algol-60, ignore the chiding tone. :-)
>
Was it Dijkstra who said "Algol-60 was a significant improvement on all
its successors"?
Mike Feldman
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1993-08-13 15:19 forth/fifth generation languages? Wes Groleau x1240 C73-8
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1993-08-09 22:00 Robert Dewar
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