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Re: Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide

From richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc
Subject Re: Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide
Date 2025-10-24 19:50 +0000
Organization Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
Message-ID <10dgl9i$116n0$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> (permalink)
References <10dbv8k$12h5c$1@dont-email.me> <10dc7tl$17987$1@dont-email.me> <10ddrva$1g88i$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <10ddrva$1g88i$1@dont-email.me>,
Andy Walker  <anw@cuboid.co.uk> wrote:

>	"(" for "IF", "CASE" and "BEGIN" was in 68-R.  "ELIF" was "ELSF"
>in 68-R and original 68.

Yes, see pages 21-22 of the User Guide, though they seem to be missing
from the syntax summary in Appendix 3.

The User Guide is impressively straighforward considering how
complicated Algol 68 was considered at the time.

My copy appears to be identical to the online one, but is the second
impression and slightly cheaper.

The Wikipedia page for Algol 68 references an article in this very
newsgroup by Dennis Ritchie entitled "C and Algol 68", but it appears
to have gone from the Internet Archive, no doubt thanks to Google.
Does anyone have a copy?

-- Richard

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ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-23 01:09 +0000
  Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-23 05:37 +0200
    Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2025-10-23 19:25 +0100
      Re: Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-24 19:50 +0000
        Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-25 02:50 +0200
        Re: ALGOL-68-R User’s Guide Carlos H <pragus@centrum.cz> - 2025-10-25 19:40 +0200

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