> As Dijkstra said of Algol, "an improvement over many of its successors"
In the interest of accuracy, Hoare said it in "Hints on programming language design", http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/73/403/CS-TR-73-403.pdf His exact words were "it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors". doug
