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Interesting that ALGOL 60 inspired other languages such as Pascal and C as well as Ada, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by orionblastar 11y ago
Interesting that ALGOL 60 inspired other languages such as Pascal and C as well as Ada, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60
- poizan42 11y agoAlso Naur did have a good deal of the responsibility for getting support for recursion into Algol 60: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/ https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-... Just think how the programming language landscape might look today if recursion had never gotten into mainstream languages, or maybe only had begun to become the norm recently.