[HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C

[Gregg Levine]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:30 PM,   <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:

On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM,   <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:

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Focal, Coral, Jovial (gag), Mumps.   Then from the outside world: Algol-60, Algol-68,...

Hello!
What's wrong with Jovial? We've built a great air traffic control
system around it. Too bad the hardware is old enough to vote.

The designer clearly demonstrated that he has few brain cells and none of them contain any knowledge about structured programming languages or for that matter any of the design principles that make Algol-60 what it is.

I don't remember enough of the details, but that much was immediately obvious by inspection, and my conclusion was that I know all I need to know and I will never look for more.

              paul


Hello!
Paul sadly at the time that's what was needed to build an incredibly
lousy ATC system. Now we need a better one, and I'm not going into
those details because it's Off Topic.

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