> On July 5, 2016 at 4:44 AM Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
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> > Ada resembled Pascal syntactically, but had very different semantics.
> > For one thing, it was type-safe. Pascal wasn't. I'm not sure
> > I'd really call it a descendant.
> >
> >
> Cheers Hendrik. You know this history much better than me.
>
> So let's say these languages share a few typical features:
> instructions go across lines and they terminate with ';' (introduced by
> Algol60 I think), they use ':=' for the assignment instruction, they use
> the same words to denote basic types (Boolean, Integer, Natural), and
> they're wordy.
>
> Didier
An anecdote about Niklaus Wirth:
He said he was once asked how to pronounce his name, and replied, "If you call me by name, it is Neeklaws Veert, but if you call me by value, it is Nickle's Worth".
Peter Olson
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