About programing, a general question

[Joep L. Blom]

On 17/12/10 16:25, Colin Law wrote:
> On 17 December 2010 15:00, Parshwa Murdia<ubuntu.bkn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Some people take life much too seriously :)
>>>
>>> Colin
>>
>>
>> Yes, because they don't want to remain in any confusion, so that no
>> discrepancies come in the future.
>
> OK, for posterity then let me make it quite clear that when I
> suggested that FORTRAN and ALGOL had an illicit relationship and gave
> birth, out of wedlock, to a succession of other languages then I was
> completely mistaken.
>
> Colin
>
> I still think some people take life too seriously.
>
Colin,
I don't think the relation was illicit!

I agree with Kipton Moravec that ALGOL was a much better language but 
that is understandable. FORTRAN was developed by engineers, ALGOL by 
mathematicians. C is also developed by engineers (I rest my case: no 
offence to engineers!!).
I differ a little with those advocates of C++ as implementation of OOP. 
If you compare it with the implementation in PASCAL (look at Linux fpc) 
you'll see that the implementation is much cleaner and better 
implemented. But it is as with Windows: if the basic concept isn't sound 
( and that goes for C) than everything you build on that is flawed as 
well. I hope I haven't insulted many people but it is my opinion ( and I 
started programming with ALGOL in 1963).
Joep