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John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Feb 24 14:10:34 GMT 2021
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:36 AM Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com>wrote:
‘To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion’
And to understand anything about Algol 68 (the programming language) youmust first understand everything about Algol 68. Fortunately, thisrecursion is broken: you don't have to understand everything *in depth* tounderstand any one thing in depth. Consequently, the tutorial "Algol 68with fewer tears" gives you a shallow introduction to the whole language,and having read that you can read any of the following sections onparticular topics.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.orgAndrew Watt on Microsoft: Never in the field of human computing has somuch been paid by so many to so few! (pace Winston Churchill)-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210224/93822e7b/attachment.htm>