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Subject: Re: OT: Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 15:47:40 -0700
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On 11/1/2024 11:25 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> My 'best' language is ALGOL.  The modern equivalent is PHP which, with a
> bit of improvement, could be made almost as good as ALGOL

I really enjoyed Algol (68).  But, tended to require a bit
more keystrokes to get a problem solved.  Considerably better than
Pascal and PL/1 (the other "teaching languages" in use at the time).

C is a win if you can think in terms of hardware; especially
if you are directly interfacing to hardware (hard to imagine
writing a VMM system in any other HLL).  I can't imagine knowing
*where* to insert barriers in other HLLs (will the compiler be
able to handle all use cases for me?)

I use Limbo as a scripting language as it has the familiarity
of C without the pointer issue (safety for non-programmers),
adds support for concurrency, GC and *lists* (annoying to
have to reinvent for other languages... esp those that don't
support pointers!)