> On 21 Oct 2025, at 21:32, Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Steering Committee!
>
> Back in January a WIP patch series incorporating an Algol 68 Front-End
> [1] to GCC was sent to gcc-patches. Shortly after, in February, a
> request to the Steering Committee was made to consider officially
> accepting the Front-End in GCC, if perhaps a bit prematurely. The SC
> decided to not merge the front-end at that time, the reasons for
> rejection being a) a concern about the potential additional maintenance
> and development burden of having the incipient front-end in a release of
> GCC and b) a cost-benefit analysis that somehow resulted as
> non-favorable towards Algol 68.
I would also like to add my support to the inclusion of this front end.
From the point of view of those of us who maintain parts of the compiler
on a voluntary basis it is always very encouraging when a new component
is introduced without any issues showing up on our targets.
Algol68 built almost from the very begining (I think a handful of trivial
changes
were needed) and tests (without fails) on modern Darwin, which is quite an
accomplishment.
+1 to comments from Richi and others about the message that we should
be sending - and the accepted mechanisms for dealing with things that
bitrot.
thanks
Iain
