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I agree; OTOH, WG2.1 accepted A68 as the "new" Algol. The
instant question here was what an unadorned "Algol" means, and while
I can see an argument for saying that it shouldn't happen, I can see
no argument for saying that it, by default, refers to A60.
But Algol 60, Simula, and also Algol 68 are all meaningless today, I
(sadly) dare to say.
You're probably right. But A68G is still a nice language. It
creaks in places, and it's not suitable for everything [what is?]. But
it serves all my programming needs. It has the advantage, in practice,
over C that all the common programming blunders -- use of uninitialised
variables, array accesses out of bounds, numerical overflow, dereferencing
null pointers, memory leaks and consequences thereof, the things that
cause most of the security holes -- are picked up either by the compiler
or at run-time before they can do any damage. I expect there are modern
languages that also do that, but at my age it's not worth learning a new
language when the old one works perfectly well.
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