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| From: | torbenm@app-2.diku.dk (Torben =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6gidius?= Mogensen) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:32:16 +0100 |
| Organization: | Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen |
| References: | 08-03-012 08-03-019 08-03-026 08-03-031 08-03-034 |
| Keywords: | algol60, history |
| Posted-Date: | 08 Mar 2008 10:56:30 EST |
anw@cuboid.uk (Andy Walker) writes:
> our moderator wrote:
>>[ [... I]t does seem odd that as best I can tell, nobody said
>>anything about the complexity of implementing call by name until
>>Jensen's paper. -John]
>
> Worth remembering that for most people in the early '60s Algol
> 60 was not a serious contender as a practical programming language,
> and so the complexity of implementation was barely an issue.
The Danish computer company Regnecentralen used Algol60 as the main
programming language for their GIER computers. Since Naur was
employed at Regnecentralen, this is no great surprise. The GIER
Algol60 compiler was by all accounts a remarkable piece of
engineering.
Torben Mogensen
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