[HECnet] Thrashing about...

On Jul 17, 2018, at 7:54 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com <mailto:healyzh at avanthar.com>> wrote: Does anyone happen to know if the sourcecode for AlgolW exists? I have at home ?Wirth's original version from Stanford which was written in PL/360 that ran on TSS/360 and the like, (send me email off line if you are interested) although I suspect you can find is also with a little poking on archive.org <http://archive.org/>. The Case-Western version for the PDP-10 (which I think may have been incomplete) I don't know. I never saw it, nor what it was written in; although I have seen various references to it on different PDP-10 web pages. Google around, you might find it. I'd be interested in knowing what the Case folks wrote it in. PL/360 was pretty arcane and definitely IBM 360 specific, so the authors would have had to done a lot of work to move to the 10 besides just a new backend. A nice commentary about Algol-W can be found at: http://web.archive.org/web/20160914215433/http://everything2.com/title/Algo… <http://web.archive.org/web/20160914215433/http://everything2.com/title/Algol%20W> although that document does not mention TSS/360 which is where I ran it years ago. FWIW: There is an algolwtoc that exists which I also have. I played with a little a few years ago. I was trying to decide for myself which was a better first/teaching language, Algol-W or Pascal? (there is a case to made for both). The author of the document I mentioned suggests that Algol-W is better because it was simpler and had far fewer 'idiosyncrasies.?