In article , Martin Gregorie wrote:
> All my A68 experience, what there was of it, was with Algol68R  on a
> 1904S running George 3 when I was the sysadmin for a while at British
> Steel's Battersea Labs.

Algol68R was the first programming language of any type that I used at
all, ever. I was introduced to it via the cafeteria service (short jobs
submitted on punched cards, collect your own output from  the printer --
hence cafeteria) on the university's 1906A when I was an undergraduate.

I also used Algol68RS on the 2980 that was installed while I was a
postgraduate. I believe they eventually got that running on the VAX 780s
they had there, but I'd gone off to try to make an honest living, by
then.

Amazing to think that Algol68 is (approximately) 50 years old! The
original report having been published in December 1968 and the RRE
compiler having been announced in 1971. It was never all that widely
adopted ... but influenced SO much that followed.

This might interest you: https://accu.org/index.php/journals/2586

(Disclaimer: I wrote it, and any errors are mine ... etc., etc.)

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Cheers,
 Daniel.

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