andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (08/17/83)
[Our system won't let me post to "net.cog-eng".]
Good Lord, why the attack on Algol-68 in the same breath as OS/360? If
ever there was a language which forces you to *think* about your
problem domain and state a clear, unambiguous solution, this is the
one.
When I worked on an Algol-68 compiler, our experience was that most
logic errors showed up as syntax errors. That is, by the time you had
stated the program in such a way that the compiler would accept it, you
had it right. Try that with a systems language like C, designed to let
you do anything because "the customer is always right".
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]