24 Jun
2002
24 Jun
'02
1:46 a.m.
At 02:09 PM 23/06/2002 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've got to question how accurate this is. It
lists Algol 68 as "Extinct",
which it defines as "No known active users or up-to-date compilers". There
are at least a few users in the PDP-10 community.
Whilst I'd like a copy of Algol 68C to run on my emulated DECsystem-10, I'm
more than coping with Algol 68G which is a front end to the gcc. I've
successfully run some of my old Algol 68C code on my PWS500a running Linux
and I have noticed a slight performance improvement :-) More on Algol 68G
at http://www.xs4all.nl/~jmvdveer/algol.html
It also lists BCPL as being extinct, yet IIRC it's
still being sold by a
company in Europe.
Well you can get a very nice INTCODE interpreter written in c which allows
you to run the BCPL compiler and also the generated INTCODE programs. If I
understood more about gcc, I guess it would be relatively easy to generate
a BCPL front end in the same way that has been done with Algol 68G. I
should point out that the interpreter gives almost as good performance as
the original DECsystem-10 compiled programs....
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