11 Dec
2008
11 Dec
'08
2:04 p.m.
We were taught Algol in 1st year Comp Sci, I quite
liked it (except for
the verbosity of "BEGIN"-"END") for it's regularity, but that may
have
something to do with it being the first structured language I
experienced (various assemblers and BASICs prior). Waterloo version - I
believe it was something near Algol 68, running in batch (cards) under
MTS.
I'll have to look through my collection of docs to see if I can find
anything about the Algol compiler. Or perhaps this was a UBC addition
that wasn't in the distribution?
(Anyone recall the MTS OS: Michigan Terminal System?)
Yes. A friend attended UMich, and we used their machine for email.
(Well, at that point it would have been one of their machines, as that
was about when they started having two: UM and UB.) Helped him with a
Pascal class once by taking my Osborne-1 down to use as a terminal.
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