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Article #5918Re: Algol-68 down for the count (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?)
From: Chris Thomson
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1988 08:05
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1988 08:05
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In article <5495@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> keith@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes: >Add University of Liverpool, Dept. CS, Dept. SCM > Algol68 R (ICL 1906S) - now defunct as of 1984 > Algol68 S (Modular One) - '' ditto '' > Algol68 RS (VAX/VMS) - defunct as of 1988 - > moved to Irvine ADA on HP 850 and 300 series. > FLACC Algol68 (VM/CMS) still in use as a teaching language until > next year. Wow! FLACC outlived all those. If you'd predicted that when Colin and I were writing it, I'd have laughed. You know, we only ever got 22 copies installed, and less than 5 of those in North America. Even though it ran on 370's under MVS, CMS and MTS, and was cheap and reliable. Talk about a marketing disaster. -- Chris Thomson, Myrias Research Corporation uunet!ncc!myrias!cmt 900 10611 98 Ave, Edmonton Alberta, Canada 403-428-1616 formerly with Chion Corporation
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!myrias!cmt From: cmt@myrias.UUCP (Chris Thomson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Algol-68 down for the count (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?) Message-ID: <670@myrias.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 88 08:05:50 GMT References: <388@ubbpc.UUCP> <16187@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <599@quintus.UUCP> <591@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP> <404@ubbpc.UUCP> <7774@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <5495@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> Organization: Myrias Research Corporation Lines: 20