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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] v7 source code for sh
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:44:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8102A7AB-21F5-477D-8D37-5412103CD396@iitbombay.org> (raw)

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On Feb 19, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 11:04 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@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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             reply	other threads:[~2022-02-19 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-19 17:44 Bakul Shah [this message]
2022-02-19 18:44 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-19 19:29   ` Clem Cole
2022-02-19 22:39   ` John Cowan
2022-02-19 23:11     ` Sven Mascheck
2022-02-19 23:34       ` Rob Pike
2022-02-19 23:36       ` silas poulson
2022-02-20 20:54       ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-20 21:02         ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-20 21:19           ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-20 21:19         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2022-02-20 22:39           ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-21  1:01             ` Dan Cross
2022-02-22  4:54               ` Dan Stromberg
2022-02-22  5:39                 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-22  5:54                   ` George Michaelson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-02-22  3:07 Brian Walden
2022-02-22 14:28 ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-22 14:47 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-21 17:58 Norman Wilson
2022-02-21 18:10 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-20  7:24 Rudi Blom
2022-02-19 15:43 Will Senn
2022-02-19 16:03 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-19 16:07   ` Clem Cole
2022-02-19 16:43   ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-19 17:24   ` Ron Natalie
2022-02-19 16:04 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-19 16:06 ` Bakul Shah
2022-02-19 16:57   ` Will Senn

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