19 Feb
2022
19 Feb
'22
11:44 p.m.
On Feb 19, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 11:04 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
Some of you may be interested in this “A history of Algol68” paper:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/234286.1057810
The author, Charles H Lindsey, still occasionally posts on comp.lang.misc
about Algol68. Among other things Bourne was a coauthor of Algol68C,
a portable implementation of Algol68.
Apparently Bourne was heavily into ALGOL,
That's sort of an understatement. I believe that when he was at Cambridge, he was
one of the people that helped to take the Algol-X proposal and turned it into the Algol-68
definition. I also believe he worked on their famous implementation of same.