5 ms·

Algol 68 was certainly too much language for the tiny machines of 1970, but on a 2020 box it might be fairly decent.

• manbart 2y ago
  There is a modern implementation if you feel like checking it out firsthand https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html
• Taniwha 2y ago
  Not really, I did an implementation in the late 70s, ran on a mainframe of the time (1MHz 6Mb). The language itself is not much more than modern C in scope - and in fact many ideas that were new in 68 are expected in modern languages The big problem was that the spec was essentially unreadable.
  • Koshkin 2y ago
    6MB was quite an amount back then.
    • Taniwha 2y ago
      Yup, we bought 1.5Mb of core for our B6700 for over a million dollars (I think we only had 3Mb on the machine I was working on)