Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!pioneer!eugene From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Mesa is a dreadful language? (look all are ALGOL based) Message-ID: <2350@ames.arpa> Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 21:31:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.2350 Posted: Mon Jul 13 21:31:16 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 01:27:28 EDT References: <764@unc.cs.unc.edu> <1120@killer.UUCP> <1064@ur-valhalla.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ames.arpa Reply-To: eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 19 This is an amazing discussion. {Anybody for angel dancing on pin heads?} Look, they are all imperative languages: C [my personal day to day language], Pascal [sorry, I have my name on the early standards document], ALGOL [58,60,68], CLU [my favorite language which I can't use], Modula (1 and 2 [`cleaned' up Mesa]), Mesa, PL/1, Ada, Jovial, CORAL, even FORTRAN is looking more and more ALGOL like. Sure, there are slight differences in syntax rules: cascading cases, strong typing, etc., but they are all basically the same. LISP is different. Simula is different (throw Smalltalk here). Make comparison in this area (how about TECO and PostScript as programming languages...;-) From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: --eugene miya NASA Ames Research Center eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize." {hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix,menlo70}!ames!aurora!eugene