23 pointsby matt_d4 days ago2 comments
  • HarHarVeryFunny3 minutes ago
    Algol 68 was a bit before my time, but c.1980 we did learn Algol W at Bristol Uni., which was Niklaus Wirth's idea of what Algol 68 should have been, and a predeceesor to Pascal, Modula-2, etc.
  • Rochus4 days ago
    I prefer Simula 67 ;-)
    • sreanan hour ago
      Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features.

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688380

    • Smalltalker-802 hours ago
      Yeah, that Algol code is not very pretty :-). I'm sticking with my namesake from 1980...
      • mhdan hour ago
        One thing I always liked about some older languages was being able to have blanks in identifiers. Although I see that they actually managed to invent a new stropping variant that doesn't work with that… For the "kids"…