[TUHS] : C dialects (was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)

[John Cowan]

[migrating to coff]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:59 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:


> I do not grant your basic assertion. Hoare had it right: "ALGOL 60 [was] a
> language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on
> its
> predecessors but also on nearly all its successors." That would definitely
> include Algol68, which was a classic committee-designed nightmare.
>

Common Lisp came long after 1968, was committee-designed, and is by no
means a nightmare.  It's not a jewel like Scheme is said to be (wrongly
IMO), it's a ball of mud, but balls of mud are best for solving muddy
problems.
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