Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

There was a PL/0 -- I think it was a toy example language concocted by
Wirth to demonstrate compiler techniques.

PL/0 appears in Wirth's early book _Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs_.
It is clearly on its way to becoming Pascal (which was later than the
publication of this book).

The architecture of the language is very clearly influenced by the underlying
machine architecture (the CDC 6600).  It's cute.

Amusingly, when I was reading this book, my office mate--a COBOL and PL/I guru
--objected that the proper order is _Data Structures + Algorithms = Programs_.

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