16 Jul
2018
16 Jul
'18
6:10 p.m.
IIRC there was a port of an early Burroughs Algol compiler for RT11.
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Op 16 jul. 2018 om 16:22 heeft Clem Cole <clemc at
ccc.com> het volgende geschreven:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Clem Cole
<clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
?I sent an email to the
folks I still see and here are some replies:
?
From the manager of Technical Language Group @ DEC: 'No - ALGOL68 wasn't on our
list. In my pre-DEC life I worked on an ALGOL-based compiler called "PLUS" at
what was then Sperry Univac...definitely not for the VAX!!!'
We were were discussing at lunch one day, I don't think DEC thought there just was
much of a market, particularly once Pascal showed up. From the same discussion, one of the
compiler implementors said (remember DEC charged for its compilers so renumeration was an
important factor when they decided to build one - so it had to make money of they were to
build it): "I don?t recall any serious discussion of an internal DEC Algol compiler
project on the PDP-11, VAX or Alpha at DEC. To the best of my recollection, the only
serious users of Algol were British, and the language is a pain in the neck to implement,
with lots of performance land-mines."
Clem
? On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
Algol68-RS? That's not familiar. I don't remember Algol 68 from DEC.
?I don't remember TLG doing Algol68. I'll should see Leslie or one the old TLG
managers next week at the weekly lunch and I'll ask.?