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| From | Carlos H <pragus@centrum.cz> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.misc |
| Subject | Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide |
| Date | 2025-10-25 19:40 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 24/10/2025 21:50, Richard Tobin wrote: > The Wikipedia page for Algol 68 references an article in this very > newsgroup by Dennis Ritchie entitled "C and Algol 68", but it appears > to have gone from the Internet Archive, no doubt thanks to Google. > Does anyone have a copy? It's in the file comp.lang.misc.mbox.zip that you can download from https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp --8<--- From: dmr@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: C and Algol 68 Message-ID: <7997@alice.UUCP> Date: 18 Jun 88 09:23:34 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 13 Practically everything ok@quintus cites as proving that C does not descend from Algol 68 is true, yet there was influence, much of it so subtle that it is hard to recover even when I think hard. In particular, the union type (a late addition to C) does owe to A68, not in any details, but in the idea of having such a type at all. More deeply, the type structure in general and even, in some strange way, the declaration syntax (the type-constructor part) was inspired by A68. And yes, of course, "long". Mostly, of course, C is Thompsonized BCPL (that is, B) with types. You don't have to look too hard to find PL/1 and Fortran, either. Dennis Ritchie --8<--
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Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide Carlos H <pragus@centrum.cz> - 2025-10-25 19:40 +0200
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