no, bc algol was a phd thesis of ralph love. i was an RA for ralph. he was a phd student for wirth. it was supposed to be the first (only?) complete implementation of algol 60. (thats an interesting statement: think of integer labels, and recursive call by name.) i coded most of the compile-to-byte-code pass of the compiler. ralph designed it. later i wrote a byte-code interpreter on a pdp-8s, which showed the memory state graphically. On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM Paul McJones <paul(a)mcjones.org> wrote: > Ken, > > > https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol60impl/#BC_ALGOL > > On Mar 9, 2025, at 12:06 PM, Ken Thompson <kenbob(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > how about smalgol? > > it was an algol-like language with just int and float types. > i dont know its history, but it came out of berkeley near > when Niklaus Wirth was there. it compiled for the ibm 7094 > in normal batch processing fashion. i converted it to a jit > into memory in order to skip the loading phase. i used > it for a lot of my fun-work. (1965-66) > > mainframe time, then, was a big factor in the computing process. > smalgol could compile, load, and run in about 1 cpu-second. > > smalgol was all ibm-cards, but it was on my mind through > the bcpl to b to nb phases. i would use the modern word > "influencer.” > > > > Paul McJones > > >