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Yes, in my youth I used Grenoble ALGOL 60, in which one said 'DEBUT'...'FIN' around a block. There was also something called Socialist ALGOL 60, which was appar
by vincent-manis 4y ago
Yes, in my youth I used Grenoble ALGOL 60, in which one said 'DEBUT'...'FIN' around a block. There was also something called Socialist ALGOL 60, which was apparently used widely in eastern bloc countries.
- int_19h 4y agoSoviets had quite a few different ALGOL 60 and 68 dialects, but I don't recall seeing anything resembling that name when digging through the history of it. It sounds more like an informal name of some dialect, or perhaps all the Eastern Bloc dialects collectively? BTW the ability to translate the language had some other interesting consequences; apparently, they found that ALGOL 68 was sufficiently expressive to design what we would now refer to as DSLs, for applications varying from CNC to accounting. The end users of those languages would be even less likely to know English, of course.
- vincent-manis 4y agoTo be honest, I don't recall when I was told about Socialist ALGOL; to the best of my knowledge, it was somebody at one of the ALGOL 68 workshops that were held back then, but I can't recall who. And I suspect that the official name of this dialect would not have been “Socialist ALGOL” anyway. The idea was that it would unify all the ALGOL 60 dialects in use around the east bloc. (And yes, I'm familiar with the saying that if you replace n ways of doing the same thing with one, you end up with n+1 ways of doing the same thing.)