[HECnet] Thrashing about...

[Zane Healy]

> On Jul 15, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> Not directly.  But you can pass procedures as arguments (ALGOL 60 allows that, too), which lets you achieve the effect of call by name.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 	paul

Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS

I wonder if it’s available for Multics.

Also worth reading, and includes a section on Algol68-RS
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl/

Zane