On Mar 10, 9:49 am, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote: > Algol68 would have done much better had it been Open Source software...
If Algol68 was *GPL* Open-Source, then I could take the Zilog Z80 implementation Algol68C and have a HLL on my TI-84 _Pocket_ Calculator (rather the existing choice of "TI-BASIC" or asm... sigh): * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-84_Plus_series * http://www.80bus.co.uk/publications/magazines/LSG3.pdf - R Anderson Pg52 Using Algol68 on a pocket calculator must then set some kind of record as being the longest "long-gestated Bubble Bobble" ever: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Bobble > Incidentally, I programmed in AlgolW on a Burroughs machine once, > long, long ago in a galaxy far away... SNAP. AlgolW was my first HLL. But I suspect you mean a IBM 360. Maybe you can find more details of a Burroughs implementation? (esp source code) c.f. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Algol%20W The only other AlgolW implementation I know of it is the 2008 translator by Glyn Webster: http://www.jampan.co.nz/~glyn/ NevilleDNZ
