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  From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:37:43 +0930

Re: Algol just plain bad (Re: Why use DocBook versus Word)

On Thursday, 26 April 2001 at 15:50:07 +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> At 02:56 PM 4/26/01 +0930, Alan Kennington wrote:
>
>> The disadvantage [of TeX] is that it is probably the least user-friendly
>> langauge I've ever seen, including sendmail.cf language and assembly
>> language. (Octal core dumps and algol are probably the only languages
>> worse than TeX.)
>
> Oh come now! Algol gave rise to Simula 67, which had class!

Algol also gave rise to C and Pascal.

> Before almost any other language, too!

There weren't many other languages at the time.  FORTRAN and LISP were
the only ones worth mentioning.

Greg
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