Re: call by name, was silly question: prefix vs postfix ops

Torben Fgidius Mogensen wrote:

> The Danish computer company Regnecentralen used Algol60 as the main
> programming language for their GIER computers.

The same for the German Telefunken machines (TR-4, TR-440).

I have the impression of an continental conflict of interests or
opinions, that prevented the jump of European ideas and work (Wirth...)
over the sea. The requirements for programs in non-English countries
have rarely been been reflected in programming languages (standard
libraries), character sets etc. With regards to Unicode I still have the
impression, that nothing but "if you need more characters, here's what
you want" has been understood about text processing or other habits and
requirements in other languages and cultures.

DoDi