On: Lisp Macros, Delayed Evaluation and the Evolution ...

[User23]

Algol 60 is wildly underappreciated, and pass by name[1] is a great example.

[1] http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/383/PassByName.html

Edit: An elementary error is to assume that call by name is equivalent to pass by reference. It's not.

[mpweiher → User23]

"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" - Hoare

http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/algol60.htm

[agumonkey → User23]

Always surprises me how much algol did embed.