Interesting comment about Google Go

[R P Herrold]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:

> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00576.html

>> I think that it's entirely plausible that if someone were to take the
>> Algol-68 spec, redraft it in modern terminology (types instead of modes,
>> names instead of variables, etc), update some of the odder areas such as
>> transput, give it a catchy Web-2.0 name and produce a decent compiler
>> for it, then it would be heralded as the next great development in
>> programming languages. Which is kind of depressing...

As I recall (weekend and I am away from my library), that is 
pretty well the path taken to the creation of C++ while at 
Bell Labs by Bjarne Stroustrup

- Russ herrold