Doug Bostrom<p>Programming languages remind me of plumbing fittings. Once widely adopted they are almost impossible to eradicate, because application environments endure like old buildings and their sinks and toilets connected to pipe buried in walls and too expensive to change.</p><p>But <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ALGOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALGOL</span></a> seems to be fading more rapidly, apparently because decades ago it was the victim of over-thinking?</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/gcc_15_is_close/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/03/13/gcc</span><span class="invisible">_15_is_close/</span></a></p>
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µP<p>Is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOTO</span></a> just a four-letter word?</p><p>M. Hopkins (1972): A Case for the GOTO (<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800194.805860" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800</span><span class="invisible">194.805860</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Algol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Algol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeolgy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeolgy</span></a></p>
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