On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 12:52 PM Paul Koning via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting. Perhaps it's because the first language I learned was ALGOL > (at TU Eindhoven) but I really liked Pascal. I learned it on the PDP-10 > after we managed to convince our compiler construction professor to stop > requiring us to use PL/C (the Carnegie-Mellon implementation of PL/I, > utterly unreliable if you used macros which we had to do a lot). I went > from zero knowledge to a complete code generator for our compiler (about > 1300 lines of code) in one week. That sort of learning curve has only > happened one other time in my career, with Python. > > Then again, we know that tastes in language vary all over the place... > Inderdaad! Ons kent ons :-) (Ik was ooit [email protected]) Algol60 was used in the Netherlands to implement two OSes, for the X1 and the X8: https://gtoal.com/languages/algol60/x1algol/ And bringing things back to the earlier topic of translated languages, the best Algol60 compiler around at the moment is probably Jan van Katwijk's translator to C, at https://github.com/JvanKatwijk/algol-60-compiler Groetjes, Graham
