[HECnet] Thrashing about...

[Paul Koning]

> On Jul 15, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:
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> Does ALGOL68 support call-by-name, like ALGOL60?

Not directly.  But you can pass procedures as arguments (ALGOL 60 allows that, too), which lets you achieve the effect of call by name.

Algol68-RS?  That's not familiar.  I don't remember Algol 68 from DEC.  Could it have been done by some university?  "RS" doesn't suggest anything in particular.

I know that CMU did an Algol 68 implementation, but that was for the PDP11.  I once had DECtapes with the run time library sources on it, but those have been lost.  There was a research group in the UK that was known for its Algol 68 work -- Royal Radar Establishment, perhaps?  And implementations were done for various machines in a number of places, mostly in Europe.  At least one (for the CDC 6000 series) was turned into a company product.

	paul

> Hans
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> Op 15 jul. 2018 om 18:50 heeft Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> het volgende geschreven:
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>>> On Jul 15, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
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>>> I’d still like VAX/VMS Algol68RS, VAXLisp and Bliss32…. because, well, just because.
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>> You don’t need a Hobbyist License for Bliss-32 or Bliss-64, DEC released them on the Freeware CD’s.
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>> The hardest of the three to find will be Algol68RS, I’ve not seen any indication of it.  
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>> Zane
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