[Oberon] An attempt at an Oberon family tree

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Liam
> Proven
> Sent: Saturday, 10 October 2020 5:13 AM
> Cc: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] An attempt at an Oberon family tree
> 
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 12:45, Bernhard Treutwein <bernhard at wildwein.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > Algol-60 and Algol-W are missing. Both are precursors of Pascal and
> > both have entries in Wikipedia ...
> 
> Well, yes, but they were not Wirth projects, or at least not Wirth-led or
> Wirth on his own. They are also very well-known, widely-influential, and
> the ancestor of so many other languages from Basic to C that to include all
> the offspring of Algol would include almost every programming language
> there is except Lisp and Fortran.
> 
> That is why I chose to exclude them. Does that seem fair?
> 

I would have included both of them, or ALGOL-W at least. Pascal didn't just spring up out of nowhere. 

"... Wirth developped (sic) the language Pascal in Zurich. The basis was Algol-W ..."

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/projects.html

There is no need to include all the descendants of an ancestor if you are tracing the origins of an offspring. 

I could be wrong but I have always thought that ALGOL-W was an abbreviation for ALGOL-WIRTH. 

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
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