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It is amazing how wrong some ideas of early computing were. Fortunately none of modern languages really supports this mess. --Dmitry-kazakov 11:53, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't think the guys in the 1960's had a monopoly on bad ideas... take the new "\" (back slash) operator in PHP[1] as an example. Fortunately, every now and then, a good idea floats to the top, the trick is being able to spot the good idea early and rewind all the bad ideas even earlier. NevilleDNZ 15:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Seeing an entry on Jensen's Device just floats my boat.

Not knowing much about ALGOL60, I'm curious about its semantics -- why is i declared twice? When iterating over i, is that value being assigned local to sum, or is it being assigned in sum's caller? --Saccade 21:50, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

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	Seeing an entry on Jensen's Device just floats my boat.		Seeing an entry on Jensen's Device just floats my boat.

			Not knowing much about ALGOL60, I'm curious about its semantics -- why is i declared twice? When iterating over i, is that value being assigned local to sum, or is it being assigned in sum's caller? --[[User:Saccade\|Saccade]] 21:50, 5 May 2011 (UTC)