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My comment was a joke based on contrasting two points: 1) "C-like" languages are often described as having "ALGOL-like" syntax. And indeed, C was based on lan
by dllthomas 11y ago
My comment was a joke based on contrasting two points:
1) "C-like" languages are often described as having "ALGOL-like" syntax. And indeed, C was based on languages significantly influenced by ALGOL-60 (though ALGOL-60 used BEGIN/END for blocks, not curly braces).
2) "IF/FI", "CASE/ESAC" and similar were in ALGOL-68, and Stephen Bourne drew them from there when he wrote the Bourne shell (with which bash was eventually intended to be compatible).