Alan Perlis is a Turing Award-winner who helped to standardize the most influential language of all time, ALGOL, of which Go, Python, C and most languages origi

Alan Perlis is a Turing Award-winner who helped to standardize the most influential language of all time, ALGOL, of which Go, Python, C and most languages originate. In many respects, he was closer to a Go programmer than a Haskell programmer. Haskell's symbols aren't notation, they're just scribbles. Miranda is a better comparison, but Miranda too doesn't lean hard enough. Ken Iverson literally developed APL as a way to give better lectures at Harvard. It was a verbal and handwritten language long before it was typed. It excels at it, because it was designed for it.