"[ALGOL W] was not only a worthy successor of ALGOL 60, it was even a worthy predecessor of PASCAL."
— ALGOL

January 1, 1970

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C. A. R. Hoare, "The Emperor's Old Clothes", 1980 Turing Award lecture, Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (February 1981): pp. 75-83.