From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [TUHS]: C dialects
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:23:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWbokJ8MyjPOLNV+6MtA=5mF=_1SZ_D4-W5L0_6p-Tksg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> In hindsight Algol68 may have been the last committee designed
> language that was good.
The committee itself fractured over the design. Dissenters who thought
it was far too complex upped stakes and formed WG2.3, which pointedly
concentrated on program design, not language.
Doug
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2023-03-15 2:23 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
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2023-03-10 11:37 [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 15:54 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-12 7:39 ` Anthony Martin
2023-03-12 11:40 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 3:25 ` John Cowan
2023-03-13 10:40 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2023-03-13 12:19 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 12:43 ` [TUHS] [TUHS]: C dialects (was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Alejandro Colomar
2023-03-13 16:00 ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 19:00 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 19:24 ` [TUHS] Re: [TUHS]: C dialects Luther Johnson
2023-03-13 19:38 ` Luther Johnson
2023-03-14 19:48 ` John Cowan
2023-03-14 19:56 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-03-14 20:01 ` Luther Johnson
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