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Someone implemented ALGOL 68 for the Burroughs 5500 or descendant? I'm way envious.
by jejones3141 11y ago
Someone implemented ALGOL 68 for the Burroughs 5500 or descendant? I'm way envious.
- nigwil_ 11y agoIf anyone finds a reference to its existence we would appreciate the details please. Bauer and DeRemer's Compiler Construction text speculates about ALGOL 68 on a B5500 but we've not found any evidence so far it was attempted. As you will see about the discussion of ALGOL-68R (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68-R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68-R - the first implementation of ALGOL 68) it took considerable resources to support it, likely more than the B5500 could provision.
- dboreham 11y agoThis was in the B6700 era, not B5500. Even so, that was a long time ago, and my memory is hazy. However, I do have an Algol68 book that dates from those times and I doubt I would have bought said book if I didn't have a machine to use it with. This old book also seems to imply that there was Algol68 on the B6800: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/ALGOL_68-Implementation.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/ALG...