13 Jan
2025
13 Jan
'25
11:18 a.m.
On 2025Jan 13,, at 7:02 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Mike Parr via cctalk writes:
Are you recalling specifically Algol68 or could it be AlgolW?
I used AlgolW on MTS at UBC in ’78 as a CS undergrad.
Still have the textbook “FANGET AN - an algolw primer”, and my greenbar listings
(but threw out the box of batch cards some years go, lol).
I rather liked algol, the course work moved to Pascal the next year, and felt like a
downgrade.
Then I met curly-brace languages and no longer had much patience for begin-end.
In upgrading Algol60, Algol W and ’68 were apparently alternatives/competitors.
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?