Historical language survey

[Rod Haper]

kris wrote:
> Just for fun, how many folks here have hands-on experience with any of 
> the following languages?
> 
> Algol
> Pascal
> BCPL
> Ada
> Modula
> Simula


ALGOL
Pascal
Ada

I was fortunate enough to learn ALGOL-60 as my first programming 
language back in '66 running on a Burroughs B5500.  I say fortunate 
because it instilled in me good block structured programming concepts 
from the beginning.  I still have my old copy of McCracken's "A Guide to 
ALGOL Programming".  It was - and still is - a beautiful language for 
it's day.  I never got to use ALGOL-68

Now, next to D and Python, Ada is my favorite language.  And yes Ada is 
still very much alive and kicking and has a new revision - Ada2005.

-- 
Rod