Keep in mind that ESPOL had a statement for every B6700 opcode, althogh I suspect that they were used very sparsely in MCP.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Laurence Chiu <000005c4ba336ee7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Algol I cut my teeth on Algol also at university - on a Burroughs B6700 mainframe running MCP. Burroughs at the time were unique in that there was no assembler language. Everything was written in a HLL, MCP was written in ESPOL, the compiler for which was written in DCAlgol. That was just Algol with additional functions for comms handling. Algol was certainly my favourite language at the time and it was cool that Burroughs even provided source code for the compiler which was a great learning opportunity for CS majors. On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 2:33 AM Bob Bridges < 00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I did a lot of coding in Algol during my time at a local University in the > late '70s. My impression at the time was that it had a serious paucity of > built-in functions, but that it enabled me to write my own and make them > easily available to my programs. So I stuffed a library full of I/O and > string-handling functions and got along just fine, it seemed to me. > > Haven't encountered it since; I don’t know what advances may have been > made in that arena. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* That sort of wit which employs itself insolently in criticizing and > censuring the words and sentiments of others in conversation is absolute > folly; for it answers none of the ends of conversation. He who uses it > neither improves others, is improved himself, nor pleases anyone. -Poor > Richard’s Almanack, 1756 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Rupert Reynolds > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2024 09:07 > > ....developing a language which is effectively the best bits (IMHO) of > Rexx, C and even older languages such as Algol 68 (much underrated in my > book) and hints of PL/1.... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
