[plt-scheme] Re: Poacher turned gamekeeper
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:23:30AM -0800, wooks wrote:
>
> Web tutorials for it are hard to come by, and I'll need one (for me
> and the students). Is it safe to use one for ALGOL68 (assuming I can
> find one)?
Algol 68 and Algol 60 are completely different languages. There is a
superficial resemblance of syntax, but even that is significantly
different.
But aside from that, if you found an Algol 68 compiler, Algol 68 would
probably be good, too.
There's a legacy Algol 68 compiler in the process of resurrection on
http://mtn-host.prjek.net. It's a site containing a number of projects.
One of them is mine, a68h. Unfortunately, it still needs a run-time
system and massive amounts of debugging.
There's also a new Algol W compiler in existence that translates Algol W
into C. It's the language A68H is written in. And Algol W might suit
your purposes as well. It's another statically types, securely
garbage-collected Algol dialect.
-- hendrik