11 Aug
2015
11 Aug
'15
4:14 p.m.
On 2015-Aug-11, at 11:06 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM, <cctech-request at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
I brought up AlgolW on the list a few years ago and someone clarified it was Wirth's
successor to Algol 60,
but that's also interesting if the MTS compiler actually is or traces back to
Wirth's implementation.
From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
There was also AlgolW, supported on MTS.
As MTS was being mentioned earlier I was going to ask if anyone knew
whether the AlgolW compiler was included in the available distribution.
?The sources are available - they were googlable - send me a note off list
and I can put together a tar image of what I have. FYI: It was written
PL/360. I did some hacking on it under TSS years ago.? IIRC Wirth did
AlgolW on the 360 at Stanford which was running one of the OS/360 flavors.
CMU ported to TSS and Michigan to MTS. also check out:
The Programming Languages Genealogy Project
http://everything2.com/title/the+Programming+Languages+Genealogy+Project
I was, so to speak, part of the experience mentioned by user dabcanboulet there:
used AlgolW as a 1st-year student, was then subjected to Pascal in 2nd year and felt
Pascal was a step backwards.
I still have greenbar listings of my student programs but threw out my card decks 20-or-so
years ago.
On 2015-Aug-09, at 11:33 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Dave G4UGM
<dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that its included, but I haven't tried it.
Yes, *ALGOLW is included and working in the D6.0 MTS
tapes.
Can't start into it now due to moving, but sometime in the future I may look at
getting hercules and MTS going and trying out the compiler.