I stole a line from C.A.R. Hoare: `[Algol 60 was] a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on near

I stole a line from C.A.R. Hoare: `[Algol 60 was] a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.'