13 Jan
2025
13 Jan
'25
4:07 p.m.
This sounds like FLACC (Full Language Algol68 Checkout Compiler) by Chris Thomson and
Colin Broughton:
"You know, we only ever got 22 copies installed, and less than 5 of those in North
America. Even though it ran on 370's under MVS, CMS and MTS, and was cheap and
reliable. Talk about a marketing disaster. " [Chris Thomson, comp.lang.misc,
November 27, 1988]
https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl/#FLACC
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:02:08 -0800
From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca
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Subject: [cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows
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Mike Parr via cctalk writes:
Hello all.
Here is a link to something I wrote - brief intro to Algol 68's background, a
nd how to run it on Windows - with a toy IDE as well.
This triggers a fuzzy memory of an Algol 68 compiler running on
MTS at the U of Alberta, circa 1980. ISTR Chris Thompson at UofA
Computing Services had a hand in its development.
Was this just a UofA thing? Did it escape to other MTS installations?
Did anyone use it to write substantial programs on MTS? Or was it
intended for Comp. Sci. teaching purposes?
--lyndon