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NevilleDNZ

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Feb 22, 2008, 10:48:21 AM2/22/08
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I have contributed some ALGOL 68 sample/example code to rosetta
code... These are nothing fancy. http://www.rosettacode.org/rosettacode/w/index.php?title=ALGOL_68

Does anyone have some real ALGOL 68 code squirreled away on old tapes
in the attic that could be contributed?

The 40th anniversary is coming up in December 2008. Anything simple
planned in Munich? I hear Munich beer is rather good.

Here are now some online notes by Edsger W.Dijkstra on the subject of
Algol-68. It is useful to see ALGOL-68 from his point of view:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site:www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD+algol-68

Cheers
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Andy Walker

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Feb 23, 2008, 2:21:07 PM2/23/08
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In article <49eea3e5-8c5b-4114...@v3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,

NevilleDNZ <nevil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Does anyone have some real ALGOL 68 code squirreled away on old tapes
>in the attic that could be contributed?

I have some old tapes that *probably* contain some A68, but
I have no record of what is on them, and as they have not been touched
for some 25 years, they would possibly disintegrate as soon the cover
was removed. I have plenty of "real" [and complex] A68, both old and
new, but I hesitate to inflict any of it on an uninterested world.

I assume that you have (a) the MC test suite, (b) Marcel van
der Veer's A68G examples, and (c) Andreas Koch's matrix [similar to
Rosetta, and including A68 contributions]?

>The 40th anniversary is coming up in December 2008. Anything simple
>planned in Munich? I hear Munich beer is rather good.

Long way to go for a beer -- esp when there is so much Real
Ale in the UK! The UK or the Netherlands might be a more central
venue for those who might still possibly be interested?

--
Andy Walker
Nottingham

NevilleDNZ

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Mar 12, 2008, 7:22:35 PM3/12/08
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On Feb 24, 5:21 am, a...@cuboid.uk (Andy Walker) wrote:
> In article <49eea3e5-8c5b-4114-848b-3fca3b0b2...@v3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
[...]

> I have some old tapes that *probably* contain some A68, but
> I have no record of what is on them, and as they have not been touched
> for some 25 years, they would possibly disintegrate as soon the cover
> was removed.

9 track tape?

> I have plenty of "real" [and complex] A68, both old and
> new, but I hesitate to inflict any of it on an uninterested world.

That has never stopped anyone from contributing to http://code.google.com/
or http://sourceforge.net/ ... The 2nd Programming Language
renaissance started
post dotcom.

> I assume that you have (a) the MC test suite, (b) Marcel van
> der Veer's A68G examples, and (c) Andreas Koch's matrix [similar to
> Rosetta, and including A68 contributions]?

MC & A68G I havd found.

I confess I had not stumbled over Koch's matrix.
* 8 Queens Problem http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/8QUEENS_A68G.HTM
* Bubble sort http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/BUBBLE_A68G.HTM
* Hello World http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/HELLOWORLD_A68G.HTM
* Increment/Decrement Window http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/INCDEC_A68G.HTM
* Prime Numbers http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/PRIMES_A68G.HTM
* Producer Consumer http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/PRODCOM_A68G.HTM
* Query Tool http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/QUERY_A68G.HTM
* Red Ball http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/REDBALL_A68G.HTM
* Sort 2 http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/SORT2_A68G.HTM
* Mini Spreadsheet ?! http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/SPREADSHEET_A68G.HTM
* Tokens http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/cases/TOKENS_A68G.HTM


> >The 40th anniversary is coming up in December 2008. Anything simple
> >planned in Munich? I hear Munich beer is rather good.
>
> Long way to go for a beer -- esp when there is so much Real
> Ale in the UK! The UK or the Netherlands might be a more central
> venue for those who might still possibly be interested?

Maybe Kees Koster, Lambert Meertens or Charles Lindsey have a blessed
"local"
somewhere in UK/NL? Malvern, Worcestershire?

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Wilhelm B. Kloke

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Mar 13, 2008, 4:20:09 AM3/13/08
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NevilleDNZ <nevil...@gmail.com> schrieb:

>
> The 40th anniversary is coming up in December 2008. Anything simple
> planned in Munich? I hear Munich beer is rather good.
>

Perhaps you want to contact Oleg Kiselyov (ol...@okmij.org). There is at least
http://okmij.org/ftp/Babel/#rtran-a68 which is part of a database machine.

Some years ago I had also contact with a couple of other Russian
programmers from a group which maintained one of the Russian a68
compilers (wbc). Their company name was lanit-tercom.
--
Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke
Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257
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Charles Lindsey

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Mar 13, 2008, 8:59:37 AM3/13/08
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In <27627806-0be8-415b...@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NevilleDNZ <nevil...@gmail.com> writes:

>> >The 40th anniversary is coming up in December 2008. Anything simple
>> >planned in Munich? I hear Munich beer is rather good.
>>
>> Long way to go for a beer -- esp when there is so much Real
>> Ale in the UK! The UK or the Netherlands might be a more central
>> venue for those who might still possibly be interested?

>Maybe Kees Koster, Lambert Meertens or Charles Lindsey have a blessed
>"local"
>somewhere in UK/NL? Malvern, Worcestershire?

Nothing planned that I am aware of. Marcel van der Veer and Andreas Koch
seem to be the main people keeping it alive at the moment.

--
Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------
Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl
Email: c...@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K.
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