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On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Tony Sumner wrote:
On Apr 20, 2012, Gordon Henderson wrote:Sadly though, hardly anything in computing in "new" anymore. I mean really new - because it's all been done by Knuth, Dijkstra, Hoare, et al. over the past 60 years... E.g. My BASIC interpreter uses Dijkstras shunting yard algorithm for expression evaluation - published the year before I was born...Reminds me. I was tidying up and came across the 'Algol 68-R User Guide', publ HMSO 1975.
I've written one Algol program. Keyed in on a TTY33 to punched tape, tape loaded into an elliot 903, ran through who knows how many passes of edit/compile/link/punch object tape/load/run and all I wanted it to do was print my name 10 times.
Would anyone like to have it?
No thanks. :) Goodness.. Algol lives on ... http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq