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| 71.1 | | SPEEDY::BRETT | | Tue Aug 13 1985 12:31 | 12 |
| Burroughs Algol (at least for the 6700) was a considerable extension of
Algol 60, hence you would still have some porting problems. You could
widen your search to include Simula compilers.
You could/should also suggest they look at rewriting the code in the Ada
language, since apart from the weird (and probably lightly used) name
passing mechanisms much of the programs would port very easily.
Lets face it - Algol is dead (unfortunately - I would rather Fortran have
died).
/Bevin
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| 71.2 | | BARTOK::BARABASH | | Fri Aug 16 1985 15:39 | 3 |
| At one time DEC also had an ALGOL-60 compiler for the PDP-15.
-- Bill B.
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| 71.3 | | DR::BLINN | | Sat Aug 17 1985 20:35 | 23 |
| DEC has ALGOL-60 for both TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 (it is the TOPS-10 version
running in compatibility mode on TOPS-20, however).
There is SIMULA for VAX/VMS, but it is not as good an implementation as
the one for TOPS-10/TOPS-20. Available from the same folks, to wit:
Swedish National Defense Research Institute
Section 184
Box 27322
102 54 Stockholm
Sweden
Telephone: +46-8-67 92 80
SIMULA is a registered trademark of the Norwegian Computing Center.
Note that converting Burroughs Large Systems applications may also
involve converting WFL (Work Flow Language), perhaps the world's best
batch-oriented job and process control language. We have NOTHING that
can do all that WFL can do, although much of what most people probably
use it for can be accomplished in DCL.
Tom
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| 71.4 | | QANTAS::REILLY | | Tue Aug 27 1985 19:54 | 10 |
| re: .3
Note that the SIMULA for VAX/VMS from NCC is vastly inferior to
the TOPS-10/20 version: (i.e. no SIMEIO, SAFEIO, or call by name).
As long as you are including SIMULA in your search for "ALGOL"
you might add SAIL. (How close is MAINSAIL to SAIL or ALGOL 6x?)
matt
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| 71.5 | | TROPPO::ANDERSON | | Wed Aug 28 1985 19:12 | 5 |
| Thank you all, but the customer has decided independently that it is now
not necessary to retain the code in ALGOL. We shall negotiate on the basis
of conversion or rewrite in a fully supported VAX language.
Keith
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| 71.6 | Algol 68 is on VAX | COMICS::DEMORGAN | Richard De Morgan, UK CSC/CS | Thu Sep 24 1987 10:38 | 7 |
| I presume when Algol is mentioned, Algol 60 is intended. Both the
PDP-8 implementation (which did not have user procedures!) and the
PDP-15 versions (which contained a number of restrictions) were
small subsets of the language.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, RS Algol 68 is available on VAX,
marketed by Scicon. Mail me if you want further details.
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