Algol & MTS / was Re: Bootstrappable language

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Paul Koning wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol_W says that it came from Niklaus
> Wirth (inventor of Pascal).  That fits a vague memory -- it was a
> proposed successor to Algol-60 but wasn't adopted and Algol-68 was
> picked instead.  This caused various big names of the time to go
> ballistic; I still remember getting scorched by Dijkstra when I
> mentioned Algol-68 to him (innocently; I didn't know any of the
> background at the time).

I do believe that having Edsger Dijkstra had gone ballistic on you 
probably gives you geek cred.  8-)

Peace...  Sridhar