1 Apr
2005
1 Apr
'05
5:08 a.m.
there were some good things said by people who had learned to program in Simula as a first language, that I found when i was researching coroutines for Damian Conway a few years ago. Apparently people whose first PL is Simula find later algol descendents clumsy.
http://www.item.ntnu.no/~pyse/simula/ appears to be a good introduction, as is googling for simula coroutine