4 Aug
2005
4 Aug
'05
11:50 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Stefan wrote:
Subject: The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for
the Electrologica X1
Thought this might be a nice read for some of you :
http://repos.project.cwi.nl:8080/nl/repository_db/all_publications/4155/
Wow, thanks for the reference!
ALGOL development is pretty interesting, it was a wonderful and
awful thing. I've read Randall and Russell's "ALGOL 60
IMPLEMENTATION" (1964); it doesn't contain code, but it very
thoroughly documents the design and algorithms in prose, examples
and the intermediate ("p-code") internal interpretive language.
Pretty amazing all around, that they documented it so well.
Alas, abebooks can't find a copy of the Dijkstra-Zonneveld book.