On 2015-Aug-09, at 10:40 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Koning >> Sent: 09 August 2015 18:22 >> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >> Subject: Re: Classic programming >> >>> On Aug 9, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Robert Jarratt <[email protected]> >> 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 60. >> >> 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.
There was also AlgolW, supported on MTS. As MTS was being mentioned earlier I was going to ask if anyone knew whether the AlgolW compiler was included in the available distribution.
