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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:22:08 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:46:04 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:54:55 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>But I do know that the begin end family of languages are children of
>>Algol.
> 
>      Block-structured languages are children of ALGOL.  That includes
> C et al.
>
C was the child of BCPL, a much more primitive language than Algol 60. 
For instance BCPL lacked any explicit variable typing: its only variable 
types were words and arrays of words. BCPL was the ancestor of all curly 
bracket languages.

I have no idea what, if any, relationship there was between BCPL and Algol 
60. BCPL was later (1966 vs 1960) but as quick scan of the Wikipedia 
article found no references to Algol, my guess is that there is no 
connection between the two.

I once was able to read BCPL well enough to transcribe the General 
Purpose Macro Generator, which was written in it, into Algol 60  - the 
two languages were similar enough to make this a reasonably simple task. 
Eliott 503 Algol was my first computer language. 
 

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