Re: Lazy Evaluation [Side-Effects in Functions]

["M. A. Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt>]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ted Dennison wrote:
> In article <5ee5b646.0111070354.55494ec2@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar
> says...
> >Well yes, we all know Algol-60! (or at least I hope any
> >serious student of programming languages does). But there
>
> I have to say I don't, and unless there's a free PC implmentation floating
> around somewhere, that's not liable to change. I may have learned some stuff
> about it indirectly, but I won't say I "know" a language unless I've used it at
> least a little.
>
> So it seems you permanently restricting the set of "serious students of
> programming languages" to folks who were around when Algol-60 compilers were
> commonly available.

Yes. Well, I am sure Dewar was not expecting such _practical_ knowledge of
Algol from all such students ;-)

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