[HN Gopher] Niklaus Wirth's famous "Closing word" about the Algo...
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       Niklaus Wirth's famous "Closing word" about the Algol 68 IFIP
       working group
        
       Author : matt_d
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-01-05 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | > _30. In programming, everything we do is a special case of
       | something more general -- and often we know it too quickly._ --
       | AJP
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       | > _31. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it._
       | -- AJP
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       | > _" [Algol 60] is a language so far ahead of its time that it
       | was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on
       | nearly all its successors."_ --CARH
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       | as to universal languages, cf http://cdent.org/examples/hello-
       | world/index.html
        
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