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Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler
28 points by matt_d 4 days ago | 5 comments
HarHarVeryFunny 40 minutes ago
Algol 68 was a bit before my time, but c.1980 we did learn Algol W at Bristol Uni., which was Niklaus Wirth's idea of what Algol 68 should have been, and a predeceesor to Pascal, Modula-2, etc.
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Rochus 4 days ago
I prefer Simula 67 ;-)
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srean 2 hours ago
Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688380

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Smalltalker-80 3 hours ago
Yeah, that Algol code is not very pretty :-). I'm sticking with my namesake from 1980...
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mhd 2 hours ago
One thing I always liked about some older languages was being able to have blanks in identifiers. Although I see that they actually managed to invent a new stropping variant that doesn't work with that… For the "kids"…
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