[SlugLUG] Question on C

[Peter Belew]

I would recommend ALGOL W but for the lack of an IBM 360 and a
key punch:

  http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Algol%20W
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_W

I had fun with ALGOL W sometime in the 1970s at Stanford. That
was, strangely, while I was already using GUI editors at PARC.

Also I doubt that your local Staples carries Hollerith ("IBM") cards.

Or maybe SAIL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIL_programming_language
or MAINSAIL (still used, apparently!)

LOL

 Peter

On 10/10/06, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Josh Neal (josh at unixmercenary.net):
>
> > $DAYJOB's core XML processing engine is written in C++;
>
> As your attorney, I recommend you begin^Wrecommence drinking heavily.
>
> > (Rant aside, http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/pcinfo/progdocs/cppcrit/
> > is a rich, well-considered critique of C++)
>
> Such a thorough job!  Pity, though, that this intro. sentence apparently
> catalogues things he considers better designed in various ways, rather
> than future targets:  "The language events which have made an update
> desirable are the introduction of Java, the wider availability of more
> stable versions of Eiffel, and the finalisation of the Ada 95 standard."
>
> --
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