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by mistrial9 1525 days ago
> was a great improvement on its successors

was .. huh?
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vincent-manis 1525 days ago
I stole a line from C.A.R. Hoare: `[Algol 60 was] a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.'
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