Re: Algol W, was Algol 68 Genie Mark 16 - An Algol 68 interpreter

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:28:40 GMT

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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:28:40 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
References: 09-03-091 09-03-093 09-03-096 09-03-097 09-03-100
Keywords: history, algol60
Posted-Date: 30 Mar 2009 10:58:25 EDT

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>I don't believe I was ever sure whether Algol-W was a language in
>itself, or an implementation of Algol by Wirth.


The genesis of Algol-W is described in the Algol 68 part of the HOPL
II proceedings. IIRC it's basically a fork of the Algol development
from around 1965. They had something similar to Algol-W at the time,
but the majority of the committee wanted something more elegant, so
Wirth and some others left the committee, and Wirth then implemented
Algol-W, whereas the committee went on to eventually publish Algol-68.


- anton
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