Writing in assembler, it's easy to construct linked records, and recursion works correctly, since you have a stack. It might take awhile, but it doesn't seem l

Writing in assembler, it's easy to construct linked records, and recursion works correctly, since you have a stack. It might take awhile, but it doesn't seem like it would be as hard to macro up some higher-level routines for parsing and code-generating a simple PASCAL. I'd expect that most Beta-machines (nowadays virtual machines) would have been written in assembler back then, including lots of expertise running compiled Algol amongst other things.