9 Aug
2015
9 Aug
'15
11:25 a.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brent
Hilpert
Sent: 09 August 2015 19:10
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Subject: Re: Classic programming
On 2015-Aug-09, at 10:40 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
60.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Koning
> Sent: 09 August 2015 18:22
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> Subject: Re: Classic programming
>
>> On Aug 9, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Robert Jarratt
>> <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> I used to like Algol68, and got to play with an implementation
>> called Algol68C
> on a DECSYSTEM-20 in the late 70s. Occasionally I ask if anyone has
> got the media for it, I still live in hope. I think there are some
> other implementations around, I should make the effort to try one some
time.
>>
>> There was a quite good Algol 68 for the CDC 6000 series.
>
> Maybe I should get one of those then.... :-)
>
>> There are also
>> oddities like an Algol 68 interpreter (not compiler) written in Algol
And there is an open source Algol 68 around today - algol68g.
I think that is the one I was thinking of. I should give it a go.