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Posted by matt_d 4 days ago

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler(fosdem.org)
32 points | 8 comments
HarHarVeryFunny 2 hours ago|
Algol 68 was a bit before my time, but c.1980 we did learn Algol W (W=Wirth) at Bristol Uni., which was Niklaus Wirth's idea of what Algol 68 should have been, and a predeceesor to Pascal, Modula-2, etc.
ninalanyon 1 hour ago||
Apart from it being an interesting technical challenge or hobby is there any mundane practical reason for creating An Algol 68 compiler?
snovymgodym 32 minutes ago|
I'd love to be corrected, but my intuition tells me probably not.

The only pragmatic use for a modern Algol 68 compiler I can think of would be to port a legacy codebase to a modern system, but any existing Algol 68 codebase will likely see greater porting challenges arising out of the operating system change than from the programming language.

Rochus 3 days ago|
I prefer Simula 67 ;-)
srean 3 hours ago||
Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688380

mrweasel 44 minutes ago||
Apparently the Russian Glonass satellites are programmed in Modula-2 [1] which seems like a wild choice.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2#Russian_radionavigati...

Smalltalker-80 4 hours ago||
Yeah, that Algol code is not very pretty :-). I'm sticking with my namesake from 1980...
mhd 3 hours ago||
One thing I always liked about some older languages was being able to have blanks in identifiers. Although I see that they actually managed to invent a new stropping variant that doesn't work with that… For the "kids"…