On Feb 19, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
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.
Some of you may be interested in this “A history of Algol68” paper:
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.