Re: Function name problem

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:48:51 GMT, David A. Cobb <superbiskit@home.com> wrote:
>Those of us with gray beards and long if flaky memories may remember
>"Algol '8x" (I don't recall the x).  An over-ambitious work by theorists
>that was still around when Ada was being designed.  Had a lot of
>symbology about user defined operators.  I could never read any of it. 
>'C' is hard enough to read.

Do you mean Algol 68? Sounds like a description of that language, and 
it would be "still around" when Ada was being designed (late 70's-early
80's). comp.lang.misc had someone pushing it as the alpha and omega
of languages recently (to be fair, it was no more radically than many
of us push Ada or the Perl people push Perl - it was only the language
that made it memberable.)

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