Part of Primos O/S was written in FORTRAN as well their Prime Information ? (Pick like
DBMS on Prime) Databasic.? Also? earlier DEC Dibol language.? On the other hand Algol was
extensively used on the Burroughs as was central to its architecture (no assembler).?
Burroughs had a highly advanced stack type architecture.
Having used both - Algol!?? Algol people viewed Fortran people pretty much the same way
COBOL guys viewed RPG people.?
--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Andy Holt <andyh at andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
From: Andy Holt <andyh at andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Algol vs FORTRAN was RE: VHDL vs Verilog
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 1:42 PM
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I remember the Algol-FORTRAN
cross-pond war of the 60s and 70s.? :)
?
Now I wonder, "who won?"? :)
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The easy answer is "C" :-)
You can look at it at least two ways:
* C has the structure of Algol with most of the dirty tricks and efficiency
of FORTRAN.
* C derives from multiple paths -
???One of these ia PL/I (which derives from Fortran, Algol, and COBOL)
???Another is from B which comes from BCPL which comes from CPL which was
essentially an extended Algol
However it seems that the saying: "I don't know what language engineers will
use in the future, but I know they'll call it Fortran." has mostly
turned-out mistaken.
Andy