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To: NCjim
ALGOL anyone? :-)

I knew someone would bring that up. That was the first language I learned back in 1970. Great for learning concepts, not so great for other things. Never played with JOVIAL.

95 posted on 05/07/2012 11:49:59 AM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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To: ken in texas

ALGOL’s mission in life was to describe algorithms. Pure ALGOL has no input/output statements. Its reserved words were in bold font - try that on your keypunch! :-) It was never meant to be compiled and run.


97 posted on 05/07/2012 2:32:59 PM PDT by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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