Readers at the time would have expected to do somewhat more work to understand a program; ASCII had only recently been standardised, so even programs in the sam

Readers at the time would have expected to do somewhat more work to understand a program; ASCII had only recently been standardised, so even programs in the same language would have slightly different syntax, depending on the computer they were written for (also see stropping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropping_%28programming%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropping_%28programming%29 ). But fundamentally, he was the designer and major promoter of CPL.