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| From: | glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:18:07 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
| References: | 09-03-091 09-03-093 09-03-096 09-03-097 09-03-100 |
| Keywords: | history, comment |
| Posted-Date: | 25 Mar 2009 21:01:23 EDT |
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> [Algol W was somewhere between Algol 60 and Pascal, with records and
> defined I/O, and no call by name. It was different enough from its
> predecessors to be called a language. -John]
Not long after I started Fortran programming in 1974 I had an ALGOL-W
manual. I was pretty impressed that it allowed 256 character variable
names, compared to only six for Fortran. That was before I would have
understood the differences between it and other ALGOLs.
Though my actual first program was in B5500 ALGOL when I was nine.
-- glen
[Mine was in IBM 1130 Fortran when I was 13, but unless we want to
revisit the way you squeeze a compiler into 4K words, I think this
thread has come to a close. -John]
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