I've always wondered what it would be like to "live" in ALGOL 68 for a while, because of its ambition and idiosyncrasy. With a modern perspective, what would I be surprised to actually have, and what would I be surprised to miss?
(Apart from the wild terminology. File modes are called "moods", and coincidentally, ALGOL 68's three standard "channels" (i.e. files) are "stand in", "stand out", and "stand back" -- I kid you not, close enough to 'stdin', 'stdout'.)
(Apart from the wild terminology. File modes are called "moods", and coincidentally, ALGOL 68's three standard "channels" (i.e. files) are "stand in", "stand out", and "stand back" -- I kid you not, close enough to 'stdin', 'stdout'.)