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As someone said, "C is an improvement on its successors"
by sriram_malhar 8y ago
As someone said, "C is an improvement on its successors"
- fanf2 8y agoTony Hoare, “hints on programming language design”: >> The more I ponder the principles of language design, and the techniques which put them into practice, the more is my amazement and admiration of ALGOL60. Here is a language so far ahead of itst ime, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors. << http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs428/doc/HintsPL.pdf http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs428/doc/HintsPL.pdf
- sriram_malhar 8y agoAh, nice. Thank you. I knew I had seen it somewhere.