Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 08/04/2024 13:53, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 07.04.2024 23:05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Even in the 21st century, articles like
<https:// [... snipped, to avoid giving it more publicity -- ANW]

An extremely badly written article in *all* aspects (form, content,
facts, quality, etc.).

Agreed.  I think it is a prime candidate for the worst serious
supposedly-scientific web page I've ever seen.  If it was written by a
12yo with access to ChatGPT, that would not surprise me.  It has two
indirect redeeming features:
  -- It pointed me at "https://opensource.com/article/20/6/algol68",
     which /is/ worth reading.
  -- Its list of the A60 committee members prompted me to check, and I
     found, somewhat to my surprise, that one of them, Mike Woodger,
     who I worked with briefly nearly 50 years ago, is still alive, aged
     101.  Having recently seen a couple of new scientific papers by F. G.
     Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, aged 100, perhaps we are entering
     a new era of golden oldies?  Richard Guy made it to 103, and was still
     working past his century.  I know of a fair number of nonagenarians,
     not least Tom Lehrer [96 yesterday], but [mostly] not whether they are
     still active.
--
Andy Walker, Nottingham.
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