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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
[...]
> Sure, Algol 60 is way beyond a museum piece by now. But remember, that was 
> the one that spawned a great number of offshoots, namely the “Algol-like” 
> language family--or really, superfamily. That included Pascal and its own 
> offshoots.
>
> Algol 68 was a bit less influential in terms of language features (I think 
> C “int”, “char”, “struct” and “union”, and the “long” and “short” 
> qualifiers came from there, and csh “if ... fi” as well), but it did seem 
> to introduce a bunch of new terminology, some of which caught on, others 
> did not. See how many you can spot:

csh uses "if ... then ... endif".  Bourne shell uses "if ... fi" (and
"case ... esac").

> * “Elaboration” for the process of executing a program (including possibly
>   transforming from source form to an executable form)

In Ada, statements are "executed", expressions are "evaluated", and
declarations are "elaborated".

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */