In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
04/09/2008
at 09:52 AM, "Kelman, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Hmmm, are we comparing languages a little bit here? When I was an
>undergraduate student at Ga. Tech (many years ago) the school computer
>was a Burroughs 5500. When I went back for my Masters in Computer
>Science that machine was the Computer Science Department's play toy. It
>was an interesting machine since it had plug-n-play before plug-n-play.
>You'd create a small gen with necessary devices like the card reader and
>punch. Then when you IPL'd the system would just look around to
>determine what other devices were attached to it. The language used was
>ALGOL. In fact the operating system itself was written in ALGOL.
ITYM a combination of Extended ALGOL, DC ALGOL and ESPOL.
>I always felt that it was a very powerful language
ALOGOL 60 wasn't all that pwerful. Don't judge it by Extended ALGOL.
>and was sorry it didn't catch on better.
The ACM doesn't even use it as an algotithm publication language any more.
They've replaced it with languages much less suitable.
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