The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the Electrologica X1

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It is really funny what you hang on to sometimes. Back in the '60s I was a
Comp. Sci. student at U of Houston. I studied with Dr. Newhouse when that
Algol '60 book came out. He took that book and assigned each student a few
subroutines. We were using an XDS Sigma 7 system with a Fortran compiler. We
each wrote our few routines in Fortran and then he was going to try to put
the whole thing together. I am not sure if he got it working, but I did end
up with a listing of all of the source code, and I still have it. 

Thanks for bringing back a memory from the software side of the house.

Gil


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> Subject: Re: The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the 
> Electrologica X1
> 
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Stefan wrote:
> 
> > Subject: The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the 
> > Electrologica X1
> > 
> > Thought this might be a nice read for some of you :
> >
> > 
> http://repos.project.cwi.nl:8080/nl/repository_db/all_publications/415
> > 5/
> 
> Wow, thanks for the reference!
> 
> ALGOL development is pretty interesting, it was a wonderful 
> and awful thing. I've read Randall and Russell's "ALGOL 60 
> IMPLEMENTATION" (1964); it doesn't contain code, but it very 
> thoroughly documents the design and algorithms in prose, 
> examples and the intermediate ("p-code") internal 
> interpretive language.
> Pretty amazing all around, that they documented it so well.
> 
> Alas, abebooks can't find a copy of the Dijkstra-Zonneveld book.
> 
> 
>