Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> As freshman student I had to program in Algol60. A fine language,

We had to learn a little Algol in a class on computer languages too.  Some
of the concepts in Algol were good, but it was a annoying language due to
all the silly choices for keywords.  They were deliberately chosen from
several different european languages.  Big surprise it never took off,
considering 99% of the computing world spoke english.  Duh.

Pascal seemed to pick up where Algol left off, without the attitude.  I
think this is how ":=" got into Pascal.  They just copied it without giving
it much fresh thought.


********************************************************************
Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products
(978) 742-9014.  Gold level PIC consultants since 2000.
-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist