http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/tags/programming-languages/Recent content in Programming-Languages on Karpoke - Just Another BlogHugo -- 0.167.0esFri, 26 Feb 2021 16:50:41 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2021/02/26/50-anos-de-pascal/Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:50:41 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2021/02/26/50-anos-de-pascal/<blockquote> <p>50 años de Pascal</p> </blockquote> <p>» cacm.acm.org | <a href="https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250705-50-years-of-pascal/fulltext">cacm.acm.org</a></p>http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2016/09/22/the-curious-case-of-the-switch-statement/Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:31:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2016/09/22/the-curious-case-of-the-switch-statement/<blockquote> <p>The earliest incarnation I can find is in ALGOL 58. The original description of ALGOL 58 is a fascinating read — it’s written like a math paper, with literal text in italics and heavy use of subscripts. Character classes are even named by Greek letters, with λ representing letters and so on. The example program at the end is completely incomprehensible, with almost every variable being a single letter and labels forming their own entire column on the left side. I guess that last bit came from FORTRAN.</p> </blockquote>