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by Joker_vD 2078 days ago
Well, Dijkstra together with Zonneveld wrote the first ever implementation of ALGOL 60, and, in fact, heavy-handed the recursive procedure calls into the language. If not for him, who knows, Quicksort may have not been invented for another decade or so.

ALGOL 68, on the other hand... "The more I see of it, the more unhappy I become." [0]

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/E...