My dear contemporary:
My third language was Algol, as it ran in a primitive CDC 3300 with 48 K of
magnetic core memory.
I had to cope first with Fortran IV and Cobol 68, since they were mandatory
for Comp. Sci. students at my college. One day I discovered at a computer's
room forgotten corner a tape labeled 'Algol', it was 1970. I learned the
language by means of a beautiful book "Introduction to Gier Algol" from
Prentice Hall authored by Prof. Christian Andersen (certainly not the fairy
tales writer) from Regnec Centralen at the Netherlands.
Later I worked with the father of Pascal, Algol W (the W meant Wirth), and
had the pleasure of using Algol in a B6800 along with its magic set of
'algolic' languages. They were nicel, revolutionary and well ahead of their
time.
Thanks a lot for reminding me that at 54 (not too old yet) I've experienced
the huge pleasure of programming as very few living beings have done, from
my earliest Frotran IIs all the way to my current C#s and Javas (and a few
Perls of course).
J. Anaya.
From: Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: OT - my comments re Algol.
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:55:21 +0000
Hi all
Thanks to all of you who replied off-list.
This is the only mailing-list I belong to where the default reply is
to the poster, not the list!
FWIW, reply to the replies
o I am aware of the history of ALGOL
o It was also the first language I used.
o Yes, I was aware of ALGOL68
o I am an aged crone, b 1945
<faint sounds of the shuffle of an in-use Zimmer frame>
--
Mitch
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