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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-01-25

C.A.R. Hoare (inventor of Quicksort), regarding Algol 60: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors."

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posted by [identity profile] smallship1.livejournal.com at 11:19am on 2008-01-25
Rücksprung durch Technik, as they say on Gallifrey.
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posted by [identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com at 12:17pm on 2008-01-25
You gotta have a sense of humor with a name like that...
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posted by [identity profile] herveus.livejournal.com at 12:41pm on 2008-01-25
...and the first computer language I learned in college was Algol 60 as implemented on Burroughs mainframes.
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posted by [identity profile] n5red.livejournal.com at 05:42pm on 2008-01-25
Well, yeah. That was obvious to me decades ago.
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