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On 20/04/12 12:51, Gordon Henderson wrote: > 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 > You can laugh I have to administer a finance system that has (hocus-pocus) Micro Focus COBOL as the back end...... There's even a fully supported ncurses (terminal) based front end you can use (if your masochistic enough). The users only see a java based front end wrapper, and that's bad enough. Tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq