[HECnet] ALGOL 68 RS?

[Keith Halewood]

Been there. Done that. In space nobody can hear your sigh of disappointment. Sorry :)

It’s particularly sad in that one of the developers in the original project died fairly recently.

I live in hope still that I can find the compiler I used.

On 8 Apr 2020, at 22:59, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:


There is also an Agol68 to C converter.  I have never tried it.  It is supposed to accept the Algol68RS dialect.   If you search on the term "algol68 download" you should find it immediately.


On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:49 PM Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com<mailto:tommytimesharing at gmail.com>> wrote:
I believe Multics had an implementation.  It's possible you might find
something there.

This is a pointer to an Algol 68 preservation effort. Presumably, you've
already chased a few of these down?

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl

On 4/8/20 5:41 PM, Keith Halewood wrote:
> That’s the one.
> I’ve been in contact with the two companies that took over various aspects/projects from RSRE - DSTL and Altran UK - but the enquiries dwindled into silence as have several requests from universities I knew had the compiler back in the day, including my own Liverpool.
>
> I haven’t quite lost hope but I’m getting there.
>
>> On 8 Apr 2020, at 22:24, Nigel Williams <nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com<mailto:nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:32 AM Keith Halewood
>> <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org<mailto:Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>> wrote:
>>> Now if only someone could magically find a copy of the VAX/VMS Algol68 RS compiler, I'd be *so* happy.
>> you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68RS
>>
>> "The compiler was written in ALGOL 68, bootstrapped initially using
>> the ALGOL 68R compiler."
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