<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> A damn shame, in my opinion. I'm reminded of Tony Hoare's description of Algol, which I'll paraphrase, "Algol was unique among programming languages in being an improvement, not only over its predecessors, but also its successors."</p><p>I loved teaching it too.</p>