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C# is really managed C, and the C lineage is more ALGOL -> BCPL -> B - > C Sure Ada saw some success, and is even a pretty decent language, but I fail to see t
by HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
C# is really managed C, and the C lineage is more ALGOL -> BCPL -> B - > C
Sure Ada saw some success, and is even a pretty decent language, but I fail to see that there is much Wirth in there, certainly not his minimalist aesthetic!
- timbit42 4y agoWirth became minimalist with Oberon, which came after Modula-2 and Ada.
- pjmlp 4y agoLets not forget that Wirth was on the ALGOL design group, and Pascal was initially designed as it saw ALGOL as being too complex for teaching purposes. So there is a little bit of Wirth on ALGOL as well.
- HarHarVeryFunny 4y agoI don't believe Wirth was involved with any of the official ALGOL versions. He submitted his own proposal for an ALGOL-60 replacement which was rejected and became ALGOL-W (Wirth), which I briefly used in college c.1979. The actual successor to ALGOL-60 was ALGOL-68 which Wirth had no input on. There's a useful language family tree on the WikiPedia ALGOL page. ALGOL is really the grandfather of all modern structured programming languages. I guess the way it was named "Algol = Algorithmic language" about says it all.