In a message dated 02-05-97, George White said to Andrew Grillet about
Why Life Stops At 64kb

Hi George,

GW>ALGOL-68 was the revision of the language. The original version was
GW>ALGOL-60 (which incidentally was the first programming language I
GW>learned).

ALGOL 68 was more than a revision. It was a wholesale rewrite, including
the replacement of BNF for its grammar specification. It was a far more
practical language than ALGOL 60, since it at least included data
structures and character strings. ALGOL 68 also had I/O defined
(TRANSPUT) whereas ALGOL 60 left that to the implementor; all ALGOL 60
implementations I have used have performed I/O differently. [Even 2 for
the same platform -- General Electric GE-600 series -- were different
from each other, and incompatible.]

Both languages lacked BCD, which made them useless for financial apps.
This was the real killer.

GW>Algol-68 is supposed to be available for OS/2, but I don't know
GW>anyone who has it.

When I win the national lottery I'm going to buy a copy, just for old
times' sake. Grey Matter and One Stop both have/had the compiler listed
in their catalogues. It was rather more expensive than Visual Age C++,
as I recall, and came with zero tools. ... :-(

Regards

Dave

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