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This paper is mostly obsolete but contains this wonderful and famous comment on Algol 60: Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an i

This paper is mostly obsolete but contains this wonderful and famous comment on Algol 60: Here is 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.

nickik 15y ago
Of all the languages at the time only LISP was better, Algol 60 was probebly more practical. (John McCarthy was working on Algol too)