[TUHS] v7 source code for sh
Bakul Shah
bakul at iitbombay.org
Sun Feb 20 03:44:29 AEST 2022
On Feb 19, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 11:04 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
>> Apparently Bourne was heavily into ALGOL,
> That's sort of an understatement. I believe that when he was at Cambridge, he was one of the people that helped to take the Algol-X proposal and turned it into the Algol-68 definition. I also believe he worked on their famous implementation of same.
Some of you may be interested in this “A history of Algol68” paper:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/234286.1057810
The author, Charles H Lindsey, still occasionally posts on comp.lang.misc
about Algol68. Among other things Bourne was a coauthor of Algol68C,
a portable implementation of Algol68.
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