Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Andy Walker Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.compilers Subject: Re: Algol68 compiler (algol68toc) on Linux? Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:07:00 +0000 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 22 Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <13-02-010@comp.compilers> References: <13-01-024@comp.compilers> <13-02-007@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1362085710 21729 64.57.183.58 (28 Feb 2013 21:08:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:08:30 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: algol68 Posted-Date: 28 Feb 2013 16:08:30 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.misc:1505 comp.compilers:858 On 26/02/13 01:05, Keith Thompson wrote: > Janis Papanagnou writes: >> Has anyone compiled and used [algol68toc ...]? > It's probably a different package, but I've successfully used > apt-get install algol68g As you surmise, A68G is a completely different package; it has the advantage that there are people around who read these groups and are regular users of it .... It's mostly "only" an interpreter, but it's plenty fast enough for everything I've wanted it to do. It includes the things that most A68 compilers of forty years ago left out [parallel processing and formats in particular, but also a lot of compile- and run-time checking], adds partial parametrisation [but not yet modals] as described in "Algol Bulletin", and lots of extra library stuff, plus a large PDF book/manual. -- Andy Walker, Nottingham.