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ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree

John Thorn

There was one particular feature of Algol that made for some interesting programming..

If a procedure was called with an expression as one or more of the parameters the expression was re-evaluated every time the parameter was referenced in the procedure (not just as the procedure was called). Nest that down a few levels and debugging was a nightmare.

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