11 May
2005
11 May
'05
6:42 a.m.
Subject: Re: Infocom on PDP-11
From: Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at
classiccmp.org>
As far as sophistication goes -- a better measure than
simply how
clever or nifty a thing is -- how far did it advance the state of
the art? Good Algol's in the early 1960's look like stuff robbed
from the far-flung future. A lot of the "compilers" from that era
we'd today call p-code interpreters (terminology changes) but man,
Algol60 is neat stuff. (Not the bloated monster Algol68 (I think
it was) became.
Having programmed in algol on the PDP-8 back when it was a real
eye opener for a new basic programmer. The PDP-8 Timeshare didn't
know strings.
Allison