#algol68 — Public Fediverse posts
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🎉 The GCC Steering Committee, clearly yearning for a retro laugh, has added the 'experimental' Algol 68 Front End—complete with a 'but don't actually use it' disclaimer. 🚀 It's like inviting a vintage car to a drag race, but then reminding everyone it's just for show. 😂 If it rusts, it gets the boot. 🤷♂️
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2025-November/247020.html #GCCSteeringCommittee #Algol68 #FrontEnd #RetroTech #ProgrammingHumor #ExperimentalFeatures #HackerNews #ngated -
@vpavlyshyn In what order did you learn your languages?
(as best as I can remember)
#Algol60 (1976 - high school)
#BASIC (1978)
#Pascal (1979 - university)
#Assembly (1980)
#PL/P (1981 - a subset of PL/1 developed by Prime Computer)
#COBOL (1981 - sandwich year job)
#APL (1982)
#Algol68 (1982)
#Lisp (1983)
#SML (1983 - postgrad work)
#Prolog (1984)
#Miranda (1985)
#C (1985)
#FORTRAN (1986)
#Smalltalk (1987)
#C++ (1992-1997 - ANSI X3J16 member)
#Java (1997)
#Perl (2001)
#ColdFusion (2002 - at Macromedia after they bought Allaire)
#Groovy (2007)
#Scala (2009)
#Clojure (2010)
#Python (2013)
#Ruby (2013)
#Elm (2013)
#GoLang (2014)
#Rust (2015)
#Kotlin (2017)And various attempts at learning #Haskell since the mid-'90s!
#Clojure is my daily work language these days.
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@vpavlyshyn In what order did you learn your languages?
(as best as I can remember)
#Algol60 (1976 - high school)
#BASIC (1978)
#Pascal (1979 - university)
#Assembly (1980)
#PL/P (1981 - a subset of PL/1 developed by Prime Computer)
#COBOL (1981 - sandwich year job)
#APL (1982)
#Algol68 (1982)
#Lisp (1983)
#SML (1983 - postgrad work)
#Prolog (1984)
#Miranda (1985)
#C (1985)
#FORTRAN (1986)
#Smalltalk (1987)
#C++ (1992-1997 - ANSI X3J16 member)
#Java (1997)
#Perl (2001)
#ColdFusion (2002 - at Macromedia after they bought Allaire)
#Groovy (2007)
#Scala (2009)
#Clojure (2010)
#Python (2013)
#Ruby (2013)
#Elm (2013)
#GoLang (2014)
#Rust (2015)
#Kotlin (2017)And various attempts at learning #Haskell since the mid-'90s!
#Clojure is my daily work language these days.
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@vpavlyshyn In what order did you learn your languages?
(as best as I can remember)
#Algol60 (1976 - high school)
#BASIC (1978)
#Pascal (1979 - university)
#Assembly (1980)
#PL/P (1981 - a subset of PL/1 developed by Prime Computer)
#COBOL (1981 - sandwich year job)
#APL (1982)
#Algol68 (1982)
#Lisp (1983)
#SML (1983 - postgrad work)
#Prolog (1984)
#Miranda (1985)
#C (1985)
#FORTRAN (1986)
#Smalltalk (1987)
#C++ (1992-1997 - ANSI X3J16 member)
#Java (1997)
#Perl (2001)
#ColdFusion (2002 - at Macromedia after they bought Allaire)
#Groovy (2007)
#Scala (2009)
#Clojure (2010)
#Python (2013)
#Ruby (2013)
#Elm (2013)
#GoLang (2014)
#Rust (2015)
#Kotlin (2017)And various attempts at learning #Haskell since the mid-'90s!
#Clojure is my daily work language these days.
-
@vpavlyshyn In what order did you learn your languages?
(as best as I can remember)
#Algol60 (1976 - high school)
#BASIC (1978)
#Pascal (1979 - university)
#Assembly (1980)
#PL/P (1981 - a subset of PL/1 developed by Prime Computer)
#COBOL (1981 - sandwich year job)
#APL (1982)
#Algol68 (1982)
#Lisp (1983)
#SML (1983 - postgrad work)
#Prolog (1984)
#Miranda (1985)
#C (1985)
#FORTRAN (1986)
#Smalltalk (1987)
#C++ (1992-1997 - ANSI X3J16 member)
#Java (1997)
#Perl (2001)
#ColdFusion (2002 - at Macromedia after they bought Allaire)
#Groovy (2007)
#Scala (2009)
#Clojure (2010)
#Python (2013)
#Ruby (2013)
#Elm (2013)
#GoLang (2014)
#Rust (2015)
#Kotlin (2017)And various attempts at learning #Haskell since the mid-'90s!
#Clojure is my daily work language these days.
-
@vpavlyshyn In what order did you learn your languages?
(as best as I can remember)
#Algol60 (1976 - high school)
#BASIC (1978)
#Pascal (1979 - university)
#Assembly (1980)
#PL/P (1981 - a subset of PL/1 developed by Prime Computer)
#COBOL (1981 - sandwich year job)
#APL (1982)
#Algol68 (1982)
#Lisp (1983)
#SML (1983 - postgrad work)
#Prolog (1984)
#Miranda (1985)
#C (1985)
#FORTRAN (1986)
#Smalltalk (1987)
#C++ (1992-1997 - ANSI X3J16 member)
#Java (1997)
#Perl (2001)
#ColdFusion (2002 - at Macromedia after they bought Allaire)
#Groovy (2007)
#Scala (2009)
#Clojure (2010)
#Python (2013)
#Ruby (2013)
#Elm (2013)
#GoLang (2014)
#Rust (2015)
#Kotlin (2017)And various attempts at learning #Haskell since the mid-'90s!
#Clojure is my daily work language these days.