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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:28:34 -0600
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On Saturday, October 11, 2003 2:27 AM -0700 Geoff Collyer
<geoff@collyer.net> wrote:

> I know that there was at least one implementation of the full Algol 68
> language.  It was for the IBM 370 series, called FLACC (Full-Language
> Algol-68 Check-out Compiler).  UBC had it, years ago.  No idea how
> many people it took to do it, though.

As I recall, Chris Thompson from the U of Alberta was either the
principal architect or lead programmer (or both) of this project, and the
environment was MTS running on the UofA's Amdahl 470. All circa 1982.

I have a minimal set of doc for this compiler sitting in a box buried
somewhere in the garage ...

--lyndon