On 2015-Aug-11, at 11:06 AM, Clem Cole wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Brent Hilpert <[email protected]> >> >> 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. >> > The sources are available - they were googlable - send me a note off list > and I can put together a tar image of what I have. FYI: It was written > PL/360. I did some hacking on it under TSS years ago. IIRC Wirth did > AlgolW on the 360 at Stanford which was running one of the OS/360 flavors. > CMU ported to TSS and Michigan to MTS.
I brought up AlgolW on the list a few years ago and someone clarified it was Wirth's successor to Algol 60, but that's also interesting if the MTS compiler actually is or traces back to Wirth's implementation. > also check out: > The Programming Languages Genealogy Project > > http://everything2.com/title/the+Programming+Languages+Genealogy+Project I was, so to speak, part of the experience mentioned by user dabcanboulet there: used AlgolW as a 1st-year student, was then subjected to Pascal in 2nd year and felt Pascal was a step backwards. I still have greenbar listings of my student programs but threw out my card decks 20-or-so years ago. On 2015-Aug-09, at 11:33 AM, Sean Caron wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Dave G4UGM <[email protected]> wrote: >> I believe that its included, but I haven't tried it. > Yes, *ALGOLW is included and working in the D6.0 MTS tapes. Can't start into it now due to moving, but sometime in the future I may look at getting hercules and MTS going and trying out the compiler.
