Re: Recursion, Yo

On 16.04.2024 22:11, Michael S wrote:

On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:36:58 +0200
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
Algol 68 and C are so different that mutual understanding might be
difficult depending on personal background, focus, and fantasy. :-)
>

 
Interesting take.
I never learned Algol-68, but from pieces of info that I occasionally
got I was always thinking of it as rather similar to 'C'.

Well, they're from the same language family. But there's some
fundamental differences, also fundamental different approaches,
and different design principles.

At some abstraction point we can say that, say, Fortran and C
or Algol 68, have all for-loops and run on von Neumann systems
but from a design perspective all three sample languages here
are very different.

[...]
I think, in the past, when I remembered more about Algol-68, I had seen
more similarities.

It's the criterons you choose that make us see differences or
similarities (or even equalities). And the set of criterions
is typically chosen from the specific point of view (personal
or analytical or requirements or...).

Janis