Re: proctype and procedure type checking fully implemented

[Alice Osako]

    Fischlin Andreas:

Dear all,

Perhaps in this context it may amuse you to read the attached pamphlet from Niklaus Wirth (in case you should not know it already):

Wirth, N., 1976. Professor Cleverbyte's visit to heaven. Institut für Informatik, ETH, Zürich. Internal Report 17, 25-31.    Wi049

    If I am not mistaken, the 'standards committee debate' is made up
    entirely of quotes from various papers, textbooks, and standards
    documents of the time. The one directly mentioning Algol 68 is, I
    think, from the standard for that very language, which at the time
    was the largest standard document ever published.
    
    Ah, those sweet, innocent days when the largest language standard
    could fit into a single book of less than 1000 pages!
    
    (The third revision of the Algol 68 standard was 235 pages and was
    considered incredibly bloated at the time. The current C standard,
    by contrast, is more than double that length just for the core
    language, with a separate standard document for the standard
    library. The C++ standard is something like 1200 pages for the core
    language, with separate documents defining the standard library and
    STL.)