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From: tgg@hplb.hpl.hp.com ()
Subject: Re: Theory #51 (superior(?) programming languages)
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John  Bayko (bayko@borealis.cs.uregina.ca) wrote:
|In article <E4IAvn.1I8@hplb.hpl.hp.com>,  <tgg@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
|>John  Bayko (bayko@borealis.cs.uregina.ca) wrote:
|>|    Theory #51 of "Why C became the most popular language": C was the
|>|first language where I/O was *not* part of the language. 
|>
|>Algol-60 disproves your theory. (How about Algol-58?)
|>
|>The rest of your post is similarly perceptive, as well.

|    Algol-60 was not *a* language - it was at least three. In fact,
|each implementation could almost be considered a different language,
|as far as syntax details.

I don't remember that which you are asserting. However, you are now asserting
that 3 languagues without i/o preceeded C !

|    Remember I also mentioned a language couldn't be popular if it
|gave up very much that programmers took for granted. FORTRAN could be
|run almost unchanged on any system. Algol? Good luck...

True, but that is orthogonal to your assertion.
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