11 May
2005
11 May
'05
8:09 a.m.
>>>> "woodelf" == woodelf
<bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> writes:
woodelf> But remember too you really had only two sized variables,
woodelf> ints and floating point. I think the big problem with algol
woodelf> you never were ment to compile it, just write programns in
woodelf> it.
Nonsense. It certainly wasn't designed as a paper language, and it
wasn't used as a paper language. The first compiler (MC Amsterdam, by
Dijkstra) was a real compiler, and at the T.U. Eindhove the "THE"
operating system used Algol exclusively, so all the programming for
many years at that major university was done in Algol 60.
paul