Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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Sure, Algol 60 is way beyond a museum piece by now. But remember, that was
the one that spawned a great number of offshoots, namely the “Algol-like”
language family--or really, superfamily. That included Pascal and its own
offshoots.
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Algol 68 was a bit less influential in terms of language features (I think
C “int”, “char”, “struct” and “union”, and the “long” and “short”
qualifiers came from there, and csh “if ... fi” as well), but it did seem
to introduce a bunch of new terminology, some of which caught on, others
did not. See how many you can spot:

csh uses "if ... then ... endif".  Bourne shell uses "if ... fi" (and
"case ... esac").

* “Elaboration” for the process of executing a program (including possibly
  transforming from source form to an executable form)

In Ada, statements are "executed", expressions are "evaluated", and
declarations are "elaborated".

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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */