5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
5:42 a.m.
It is really funny what you hang on to sometimes. Back in the '60s I was a
Comp. Sci. student at U of Houston. I studied with Dr. Newhouse when that
Algol '60 book came out. He took that book and assigned each student a few
subroutines. We were using an XDS Sigma 7 system with a Fortran compiler. We
each wrote our few routines in Fortran and then he was going to try to put
the whole thing together. I am not sure if he got it working, but I did end
up with a listing of all of the source code, and I still have it.
Thanks for bringing back a memory from the software side of the house.
Gil
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Subject: Re: The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the
Electrologica X1
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/415
5/
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.