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On 1 Jan 2024 10:31:05 GMT
TimS wrote:
> On 01 Jan 2024 at 05:45:08 GMT, "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"
> wrote:
>
> > It was so that the set of keywords in the language could be
> > extended without any risk of them ever being mistaken for variables. The
> > idea was that keywords were picked out by "stropping" them either by
> > CASE or with 'quotes' or by typeface (bold usually) instead of there
> > being a set of keywords that could not be used as variable names.
>
> Yebbut that was never going to work, given the technology of the day. I
> think I wrote one program in it and didn't bother after that.
But it *did* work - you could even type the code stropped with
quotes or UPPER CASE and print it stropped with bold face or italic.
I quite liked Algol 60, and Algol W was OK as teaching languages go
but I really didn't get on with Algol 68C - nasty over-complex mess of a
language - meeting it at the same time as BCPL only emphasised the
impression.
--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency
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