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Re: [LUG] OT: PHP hammer

 

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Tony Sumner wrote:

On Apr 20, 2012, Gordon Henderson wrote:

Sadly though, hardly anything in computing in "new" anymore. I mean
really new - because it's all been done by Knuth, Dijkstra, Hoare,
et al. over the past 60 years... E.g. My BASIC interpreter uses
Dijkstras shunting yard algorithm for expression evaluation -
published the year before I was born...

Reminds me. I was tidying up and came across the 'Algol 68-R User Guide',
publ HMSO 1975.

I've written one Algol program. Keyed in on a TTY33 to punched tape, tape loaded into an elliot 903, ran through who knows how many passes of edit/compile/link/punch object tape/load/run and all I wanted it to do was print my name 10 times.

Would anyone like to have it?

No thanks. :)

Goodness.. Algol lives on ...

  http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html


Gordon

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