Author here. From the Algol viewpoint, you can think of a temporal program as one enormous statement followed by a semicolon, embedded in a while(1) loop.
Semicolon is semicolon, but in Pascal/Java you have lots of tiny semicolons and in a temporal program you have one giant semicolon. The practical implications of that are more wide-ranging than you think, and quite interesting.
Semicolon is semicolon, but in Pascal/Java you have lots of tiny semicolons and in a temporal program you have one giant semicolon. The practical implications of that are more wide-ranging than you think, and quite interesting.