NevilleDNZ

3 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by NevilleDNZ 4y ago

   I can imagine this scenario happening in Algol68 (or indeed any language), especially in the 1970s when memory was shared, unprotected and at a premium. The scenario could have been a season batch job that corrupted some required shared mem
2. 2.▲
   by NevilleDNZ 11y ago

   Hmmm... It is interesting how many years urban myths can persist.... 45 years and counting.... "In December 1968 the report on the Algorithmic language ALGOL 68 was published. On 20–24 July 1970 a working conference was arranged by the
3. 3.▲
   by NevilleDNZ 12y ago

   Your friends sounds like he has the "Right Stuff" and can join the Algol68@linkedin group ... http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Algol68-2333923/about
4. 4.▲
   by NevilleDNZ 16y ago

   The UK Defence Research Agency also produced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten15 - Ten15 served as an intermediate language for various compilers, but with several unique features, some of which have still to see the light of day in everyd
5. 5.▲
   by NevilleDNZ 17y ago

   re: Algol68 - try http://sourceforge.net/projects/algol68/files The Algol68G interpreter has installers for for Windows, Fedora, Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu and Debian. And the source tarball will compile on Solaris, BSD and OSX etc. Site also h