Re: Empirical data: assembly source vs. HLL source.

darcy@moa.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Joseph D. Darcy)
14 Jul 1999 02:14:28 -0400

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From: darcy@moa.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Joseph D. Darcy)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Jul 1999 02:14:28 -0400
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
References: 99-07-023 99-07-038 99-07-042 99-07-044
Keywords: history

johnmce@world.std.com (John McEnerney) writes:


>> [As is so often the case, Algol W was a significant
>> improvement over many of its successors. -John]


>John McEnerney (mcenerney@metrowerks.com)
>[I'm pretty sure it was originally due to notable aphorist Al Perlis,
>who was my thesis advisor. -John]


C. A. Hoare published this pithy comment about ALGOL 60, "Here is a
language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement
on its predecessors, but also on on nearly all its successors."
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact citation handy; the paper was
reprinted in at least one edition of "Programming Languages A Grand
Tour." This series of books are compilations of programming language
papers and language specifications judged noteworthy.


-Joe Darcy
darcy@cs.berkeley.edu

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