• HarHarVeryFunny 28 minutes ago

    Algol 68 was a bit before my time, but c.1980 we did learn Algol W at Bristol Uni., which was Niklaus Wirth's idea of what Algol 68 should have been, and a predeceesor to Pascal, Modula-2, etc.

    • Rochus 4 days ago

      I prefer Simula 67 ;-)

      • srean an hour ago

        Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features.

        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688380

        • Smalltalker-80 3 hours ago

          Yeah, that Algol code is not very pretty :-). I'm sticking with my namesake from 1980...

          • mhd 2 hours ago

            One thing I always liked about some older languages was being able to have blanks in identifiers. Although I see that they actually managed to invent a new stropping variant that doesn't work with that… For the "kids"…