From: Mike Markowski <mike.ab3ap@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Algol 68 and Unix (was cron and at ...)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:44:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39730a23-090d-0a03-a536-aa83d5f7dc6f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVLgdPVEGvGfyVAwNMz66=0huVyvRY90E+PduwG4ssVRQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/17/20 9:21 AM, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
>
> ...My knowledge of A68 comes from reading the official definition back in
> the day. It took effort to see the clarity of the design through the
> fog of the description. Until more accessible descriptions came along
> (which I admit to not having seen) it would have been a big barrier to
> acceptance...
By coincidence, fortune brought this up as I opened a terminal window:
No proper program contains an indication which as an operator-applied
occurrence identifies an operator-defining occurrence which as an
indication-applied occurrence identifies an indication-defining
occurrence different from the one identified by the given indication as
an indication-applied occurrence.
-- ALGOL 68 Report
Yikes...
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-17 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-17 14:21 M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-17 14:24 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-12-17 14:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-17 14:44 ` Mike Markowski [this message]
2020-12-17 21:18 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2020-12-18 5:06 ` John Cowan
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