Re: Algol 68 is not ALGOL 60
The problem with ALGOL-68 was that when Wirth's ALGOL-W was rejected he threw his toys out of the pram and resigned from the committee. If he'd stayed but voted against the proposed standard than it's likely that a majority of the committee would have followed his lead... it was basically Wirth+Hoare vs van Wijngaarden and a number of his students whom he'd coopted.
And what exactly McCarthy was doing there is unclear, since he'd already abandoned ALGOL for Lisp.
MarkMLl
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