Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mit-athena!jc From: jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Algol68, the solution to our problems. Message-ID: <106@mit-athena.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 10:27:08 EST Article-I.D.: mit-athe.106 Posted: Tue Mar 5 10:27:08 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 05:21:28 EST References: <800007@acf4.UUCP> Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 15 Hey, when can I get ahold of a usable (or even good) Algol68 compiler. I've been waiting 16 years already; it's about time that people stop saying how great it is and make the compilers available. I mean, I like C, sort of; it's a big improvement on Fortran and Pascal, and probably also on Ada (which I may get to use in my old age); but it does have a few minor problems here and there. C'mon, don't just keep saying how good it is, let's see the compilers. Is someone maybe writing a portable Algol68-to-C translator and a set of run-time routines, all in the public domain? Drool, drool, slobber, drool.... John Chambers