From: eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: forth/fifth generation languages?
Date: 9 Aug 93 20:07:28 GMT [thread overview]
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In article <1993Aug9.100625.462@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) w
rites:
> 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. :-)
But I do agree that no language before or since has been anywhere
near as beautiful. It is possible (with effort, but when has
programming not required effort) to write pretty code in Pascal and
Ada, and it is possible to write PL/1, FORTRAN, Algol-68 and even
COBOL that is presentable, but C at its best is ugly.
--
Robert I. Eachus
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