[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

On Jan 13, 2025, at 5:10 PM, Martin Bishop via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: Ben I shall simply comment that for a useless language it did a lot of good, signal processing, work for me all but 50 years ago As an example, you could define matrix operators with parametric dimensions and write complex matrix (Riccati) equations "naturally". The code was easy to verify, if not efficient on sparse matrices. But, they provided a gold standard to commission the efficient code and validate its computations. Even now "languages" that can return dynamically dimensioned results on the heap are a bit thin on the ground, and Algol68R took care of the garbage collection and had better fault dumps than I have seen since. And, the syntax was defined in BNF - just like Ada and VHDL Martin