15 Jul
2018
15 Jul
'18
11:35 p.m.
On Jul 15, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS
I wonder if it?s available for Multics.
Also worth reading, and includes a section on Algol68-RS
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl/
Zane
On Jul 15, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:
Does ALGOL68 support call-by-name, like ALGOL60?
Not directly. But you can pass procedures as arguments (ALGOL 60 allows that, too),
which lets you achieve the effect of call by name.
Algol68-RS? That's not familiar. I don't remember Algol 68 from DEC. Could it
have been done by some university? "RS" doesn't suggest anything in
particular.
I know that CMU did an Algol 68 implementation, but that was for the PDP11. I once had
DECtapes with the run time library sources on it, but those have been lost. There was a
research group in the UK that was known for its Algol 68 work -- Royal Radar
Establishment, perhaps? And implementations were done for various machines in a number of
places, mostly in Europe. At least one (for the CDC 6000 series) was turned into a
company product.
paul