[HECnet] Thrashing about...

[Clem Cole]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:

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> Does anyone happen to know if the sourcecode for AlgolW exists?
>
I have at home ​Wirth's original version from Stanford which was written in
PL/360 that ran on TSS/360 and the like, (send me email off line if you are
interested) although I suspect you can find is also with a little poking on
archive.org.    The Case-Western version for the PDP-10 (which I think may
have been incomplete) I don't know. I never saw it, nor what it was written
in; although I have seen various references to it on different PDP-10 web
pages.  Google around, you might find it.  I'd be interested in knowing
what the Case folks wrote it in.  PL/360 was pretty arcane and definitely
IBM 360 specific, so the authors would have had to done a lot of work to
move to the 10 besides just a new backend.

A nice commentary about Algol-W can be found at:  http://web.archive.org/
web/20160914215433/http://everything2.com/title/Algol%2520W
although that document does not mention TSS/360 which is where I ran it
years ago.

FWIW: There is an algolwtoc that exists which I also have.  I played with a
little a few years ago.  I was trying to decide for myself which was a
better first/teaching language, Algol-W or Pascal​  (there is a case to
made for both).    The author of the document I mentioned suggests that
Algol-W is better because it was simpler and had far fewer 'idiosyncrasies.'

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