From: acolvin@efunct.com   
      
   > and Algol 60 was "not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also   
   > on nearly all its successors" (C.A.R. Hoare).   
      
   > How many modern languages can claim the same?   
      
   C. For a while I would have allowed C++ as an exception, but that went away   
   with cfront. Still not sure about go.   
   [Your moderator reminds you that he has very little patience for yet more   
   arguments about why C is a good or a bad language. -John]   
      
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