From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f51e93dacd9c7fca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-18 17:35:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr13.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!3bae8248!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: status of Ada STL? References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.115.107.15 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr13.news.prodigy.com 1024446861 ST000 67.115.107.15 (Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:34:21 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:34:21 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: SCSYASVGXZUWSVPXN[O@_WH@YR_B@EXLLBWLOOAFMAVNDQUBLNTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:34:21 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26327 Date: 2002-06-19T00:34:21+00:00 List-Id: >I believe the language you're thinking of was Algol-60, and I believe >they wanted to use a left-pointing arrow (a single character, not a "<" >followed by an "="), which character sets didn't support, so they I learned programming with Neliac (an Algol 58 derivative) on Flexowriters. They had a right arrow character so you wrote "X+Y->Z" with a single, easily distinguishable, character instead of "->". Similarly for single <=, >=, and /= characters, an upward pointing arrow for exponentiation, and single And and Or characters (the U and upside down U of symbolic logic). The punched card was a great leap backwards.