[masklinn]

That it might have deserved the moniker if it had been released around the same time as java.

[coldtea]

Make that a few decades before actually:

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/

[masklinn]

Well it does have a structural type system (one of the few other languages with one being OCaml, '96), a GC (popularised/made acceptable by Java '95) and provides language-level support for CSP (Occam '83)

[Joky]

Thanks for the link, that was very interesting to read! I didn't know Algol (I knew the name and how "historical" it is but not the details).

[twic]

Hadn't seen this before. This is brilliant. Thanks.

So, who's up for an Algol-15 project?