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by sourcepluck 773 days ago
"Algolian" is a lovely word. Does it come from somewhere, or was it yourself off the cuff?
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'C-like language' has irked me for decades, since C was one of the first languages I learned and most languages that expression refers to are nothing like C, so when I came across lispers referring to Algol-like or Algol-descendants I took it a step further.

A web search tells me it's already in use in Star Trek.