On 2025Jan 13,, at 7:02 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Mike Parr via cctalk writes: >> Hello all. >> Here is a link to something I wrote - brief intro to Algol 68's background, a >> nd how to run it on Windows - with a toy IDE as well. > > This triggers a fuzzy memory of an Algol 68 compiler running on > MTS at the U of Alberta, circa 1980. ISTR Chris Thompson at UofA > Computing Services had a hand in its development. > > Was this just a UofA thing? Did it escape to other MTS installations? > Did anyone use it to write substantial programs on MTS? Or was it > intended for Comp. Sci. teaching purposes?
Are you recalling specifically Algol68 or could it be AlgolW? I used AlgolW on MTS at UBC in ’78 as a CS undergrad. Still have the textbook “FANGET AN - an algolw primer”, and my greenbar listings (but threw out the box of batch cards some years go, lol). I rather liked algol, the course work moved to Pascal the next year, and felt like a downgrade. Then I met curly-brace languages and no longer had much patience for begin-end. In upgrading Algol60, Algol W and ’68 were apparently alternatives/competitors.
