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by paavohtl 2552 days ago
Hey, that's not fair for ALGOL 68. It had sum types, pattern matching and everything-is-an-expression [1].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=356671

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I guess that's why Go is a subset :)

Although to be fair to Go, I don't think ALGOL 68 had a (slightly broken) implementation of CSP and HTTP/2.0 support in the standard library.