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mlajtostoday at 3:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Oh, he would definitely hate it even more. It was too high-level for his taste.

What I would like to know is how he would bend Algol 60 if he had tablet with pencil that could evaluate it in real-time.


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Jtsummerstoday at 4:30 PM

> It was too high-level for his taste.

That's a pretty silly claim. Is Haskell not high-level?

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/OtherDocs/Hask...

Someone happy to see Haskell used in freshman CS education is not someone who opposes high-level languages.