[TUHS] mental architecture models, Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

[John Levine]

It appears that Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> said:
>    > From: Steve Jenkin
>
>    > C wasn't the first standardised coding language, FORTRAN & COBOL at
>    > least were before it
>
>There were a ton; Algol-60 is the most imppotant one I can think of.

Only sort of. It didn't have a standard concrete representation, and
it didn't have any I/O, so it was fine for portable elegant numerical
solutions to partial differential equations, but hopeless for portably
reading in a list of numbers and printing the sum. In 1964 they
defined what were supposed to be standard I/O routines but it was too
little too late.

Wirth's Algol W and Pascal were supposed to fix that but Pascal never
was all that portable in practice.

R's,
John