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I had no idea how much of today's code carries ALGOL DNA.
by chipdude 17y ago
I had no idea how much of today's code carries ALGOL DNA.
- jacquesm 17y agoBetween Algol, Lisp and Prolog you've covered 95+% of all the 'DNA' in existence.
- j_baker 17y agoALGOL invented most of the things you see in today's code. Loops, subroutines, and I believe dynamic allocation all came from ALGOL. And the reality is that these things haven't really changed much. Most of the changes that modern languages bring are in the way of directives to the compiler/interpreter.
- gruseom 17y agoLoops, subroutines, and I believe dynamic allocation all came from ALGOL. The initial release of Fortran had loops and subroutines. But I don't think even they invented those things. I'm not sure about dynamic allocation.