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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by dllthomas on Thursday August 18, 2016 @04:55PM (#12316244)
It's a joke, but not the one you thought.

The joke is that the syntax of Algol didn't actually look all that much like what people mean when they say "Algol-like syntax". No curly braces anywhere to be seen.

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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by dalke on Thursday August 18, 2016 @05:48PM (#12316546)
As my introduction to Algol-like languages was through Pascal, the joke completely passed me by.
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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by dllthomas on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:30PM (#12316993)
I could see that putting you in a place where encountering people misusing "Algol-like" to mean C-like, when trying to distinguish from something more like Algol, would be extra noticeable and annoying.

Likely you have just been lucky :)

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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by dalke on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:46PM (#12317057)
I hang around computational chemists. They wouldn't say "Algol-like" in the first place. So, double lucky!
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