[About Algol 60] Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

— Tony Hoare, Hints on Programming Language Design (1973)

Source: http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/73/403/CS-TR-73-403.pdf

From a December 1973 report.

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