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

johnmce@world.std.com (John McEnerney)
12 Jul 1999 01:05:01 -0400

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From: johnmce@world.std.com (John McEnerney)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 12 Jul 1999 01:05:01 -0400
Organization: Metrowerks, Inc.
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> [As is so often the case, Algol W was a significant
> improvement over many of its successors. -John]


Who is that author of that quote? It went something like "Not only was
Algol 60 a great improvement over all of its predecessors, but also most
of its successors..."


I remember Butler Lampson quoting it in a course on Programming Languages
at Penn in 1981.
--
John McEnerney (mcenerney@metrowerks.com)
[I'm pretty sure it was originally due to notable aphorist Al Perlis,
who was my thesis advisor. -John]

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