8 Nov
2021
8 Nov
'21
8:18 p.m.
Indeed, one wonders about the focus on Call by Name and all that thunky
stuff.? I can't remember off hand where I needed Jensen's Device,
although everybody did agree it was a cool think.? On the other hand,
the thunk could get expensive.
At the time, there was far focus on control flow than data structures.?
So programming Algol 60 (on the 10) is not that much different from C in
many, many respects, except:
1. More consistency and verbs to avoid using a goto (like a return
statement)
2. Non-atomic data structures or records (struct's)
The ALGOL STAR game had to do some gymnastics to pick data into ints
into order to track players which would have been completely unnecessary
had C been used.
But this was 1974 on Long Island; nobody had heard of C or Unix. I'm not
sure if it was out of the lab in any significant way by then.
On 11/8/21 1:59 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 11/8/21 1:45 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
One of my best friends in High School and during
my undergraduate
years (shortly after the invention of electricity) was positively an
Algol 68 _fanatic_.? I don't think I ever saw him without that green
and white ACM magazine issue with a focus on Algol 68 which he would
whip out at a moment's notice.? Sometimes it seemed that he thought
that a sneeze could best be expressed in Algol 68.
? Nah...really, you need C for that.
???????????? -Dave