“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 (verified)
The language in question is ALGOL 60.
Hints on programming-language design (Primary source)
In this paper, Tony Hoare outlines foundational principles for designing programming languages, emphasizing that readability and simplicity are more valuable than clever features or machine optimization.
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“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline? My answer to these questions is simple—it is the art of programming a computer.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Time enough always proves little enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)