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| From: | glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:08:03 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
| References: | 09-03-091 09-03-093 09-03-096 09-03-097 |
| Keywords: | history, comment |
| Posted-Date: | 25 Mar 2009 18:07:51 EDT |
Glyn Webster <gdw@wave.co.nz> wrote:
> Not so, I've written an Algol-W compiler for
> Linux which can be found here:
> http://www.jampan.co.nz/~glyn/
> So far it has one enthusiastic user who has brought
> an Algol 68 compiler back to life with it.
> [Well, whaddaya know. If you reincarnated PL360 then
> I'd be really impressed. -John]
Well, the PL/360 compiler and manual are available.
I don't believe I was ever sure whether Algol-W was a language in
itself, or an implementation of Algol by Wirth. As the manual is
available, one could implement a compiler from it.
A did ask Wirth, and it seems that he kept no copies when he left
Stanford. (I believe it was just a short visit.)
I also asked some people at Stanford before they dumped the whole tape
library a few years ago. If there were any tapes, it seems that there
wasn't anyone who knew which ones they were.
-- glen
[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]
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