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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Recursion, Yo
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 19/04/2024 16:26, Tim Rentsch wrote:
....
>> ...                                      Certainly C has some
>> similarities to Algol 68, but I wouldn't say C and Algol 68
>> are similar languages, only that they have a few similarities.
>
> I can't see any connection between Algol68 and C; I'm surprised at people
> who say they do.

"Connection" is vague, but Dennis Ritchie has written about the
influence of Algol 68 on C.

> C was put together together as a systems language to do a job, not to
> implemement some esoteric concept of a language that few could understand.
>
> I understood it was based on languages like B and BCPL.

BCPL had assignment statements but B followed Algol 68 and made
assignment an expression operator (along with the +=, -= etc versions).
This, of course, fed directly into C.

DMR also cites Algol 68's type composition as an influence on C's type
semantics, and casts come straight from Algol 68.

-- 
Ben.