From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 18:33:23 -0700 Subject: Unix witticisms In-Reply-To: <8df224c9c86d80c9ab8fc395b67e70c7@quintile.net> References: <8df224c9c86d80c9ab8fc395b67e70c7@quintile.net> Message-ID: <2B4589F3-E3F8-4D88-A247-0BA1204AE873@bitblocks.com> > On Oct 5, 2017, at 6:01 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > > I remember: > > "Version 7 was an improved on everything that preceeded it, > and everything that followed". A variation of C.A.R.Hoare's quip in his 1973 paper "Hints on Programming Language Design" The more I ponder the principles of language design, and the techniques which put them into practice, the more is my amazement and admiration of ALGOL 60. Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.