About programing, a general question

[Colin Law]

On 17 December 2010 23:00, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>
> 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).

On what machine as a matter of interest?  Mine was an Elliott 803 with
the equivalent of 32KB RAM in about 1967 at Lucas in Birmingham,
England.

Colin