Name: Anonymous 2013-01-25 19:05
The type system of ALGOL 68 has been adopted, more or less faithfully, in many subsequent languages. In particular, the
http://cs305.com/book/programming_languages/Conf-01/HOPLII/p27-lindsey.pdf
structs, the unions, the pointer types, and the parameter passing of C were influenced by ALGOL 68 [Ritchie 1993], although the syntactic sugar is bizarre and C is not so strongly typed. Another language with a related type system is SML [Milner 1990], particularly with regard to its use of ref types as its means of realizing variables, and C++ has also benefitted from the ref types [Stroustrup 1996]. Even the Intuitionistic Theory of Types [Lof 1984] uses essentially the same type system.http://cs305.com/book/programming_languages/Conf-01/HOPLII/p27-lindsey.pdf