> At 22:21 +0200 98/10/16, Martin Schroeder wrote: > ><nitpick> > >AFAIK it is not pascal-ish, but classic algol68-like pseudocode. :-) > ></nitpick> > > SSMA, I recall that Wirth who made Pascal stole the syntax largely from > Algol: So what's Pascalish is likely to be Algolish, and vice versa. algol-68 (what martin was talking about) and algol-60 have very different specification styles. wirth stormed out of the group that was specifying algol-68 because he thought it was becoming too complicated (or something). algol-68 never really took off (though i and many other people here programmed in it a lot in the late 60s and early 70s); pascal's never exactly taken the world by storm, either. but i think the whole issue is irrelevant to discussion of latex. so i'll shut up now... robin