[cctalk] Re: What constitutes a dead computer language

Interesting. Perhaps it's because the first language I learned was ALGOL (at TU Eindhoven) but I really liked Pascal. I learned it on the PDP-10 after we managed to convince our compiler construction professor to stop requiring us to use PL/C (the Carnegie-Mellon implementation of PL/I, utterly unreliable if you used macros which we had to do a lot). I went from zero knowledge to a complete code generator for our compiler (about 1300 lines of code) in one week. That sort of learning curve has only happened one other time in my career, with Python. Then again, we know that tastes in language vary all over the place...