Algol (1958) is the spiritual parent language of the C/C++/C#/Java family. It introduced the accursed "int x" syntax which Niklaus Wirth tried to undo with Pascal and other designs. Yet the notation persists and perpetures a 60-year confusion around types and values.
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It's tempting to say these are edge cases, but programming languages must scale. That's their entire purpose! If we can't write scalable abstractions on types and values, then libraries devolve into layers of workarounds like C++ std, rather than bundles of features.
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