Origins of C (was: "Nobody programs in machine language" (was: Modern

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Thu Jun 24 09:11:19 2004

>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> writes:

 Fred> But C++ claims to be a successor to C. C# claims to be a
 Fred> successor to C++, although I don't know whether anybody outside
 Fred> of MICROS~1 takes that seriously.

And C++ is sufficiently complex that its relation to C is rather
muddled...

>> (Wasn't it Algol that was praised as being a considerable
>> improvement over its successors ?)

I can believe that. Then again, both Pascal and Modula-2 are
admirable languages. And personally I rather liked Algol-68 (from
which C++ borrowed a lot) -- even though it got me yelled at by
Dijkstra.

          paul
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