Re: Add nested-function support in a language the based on a stack-machine

mac <acolvin@efunct.com>
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:27:17 -0000 (UTC)

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From: mac <acolvin@efunct.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:27:17 -0000 (UTC)
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Keywords: code, design
Posted-Date: 20 Mar 2018 12:35:34 EDT

> and Algol 60 was "not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also
> on nearly all its successors" (C.A.R. Hoare).


> How many modern languages can claim the same?


C. For a while I would have allowed C++ as an exception, but that went away
with cfront. Still not sure about go.
[Your moderator reminds you that he has very little patience for yet more
arguments about why C is a good or a bad language. -John]


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