11 Dec
2008
11 Dec
'08
6:45 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Paul Koning wrote:
It was a good thing he was not taken for a italian dinner thinking of
his goto comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol_W says that it
came from Niklaus
Wirth (inventor of Pascal). That fits a vague memory -- it was a
proposed successor to Algol-60 but wasn't adopted and Algol-68 was
picked instead. This caused various big names of the time to go
ballistic; I still remember getting scorched by Dijkstra when I
mentioned Algol-68 to him (innocently; I didn't know any of the
background at the time).
I do believe that having Edsger Dijkstra had gone ballistic on you
probably gives you geek cred. 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
Well you you can get ALGOL 60 for DOS but not CP/M. The still think
there is some life in
z80 imbeded products.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/algol60.html