I think Burroughs #Algol had * as a similar notation. At least I saw such a notation in a friend’s code. He was studying CS at Seton Hall U. in the 1980s. So they must have been teaching on Burroughs stack machines. (Yes, in those days they still sometimes taught programming with decent programming languages. My one course used Ratfor on Unix BTW, with a textbook on F77 (go figure), but I wasn’t studying CS.)

Target Name Symbol (@) — learn.adacore.com https://learn.adacore.com/courses/whats-new-in-ada-2022/chapters/assignment_target.html

@ve7fim

In 1973 I was programming on an Elliott 503, using Algol, an early structured language.

Input was by using 8 column paper tape from a Friden Flexowriter.

Including procedures was exactly that. Regularly used procedures were kept on rolls of paper, and were added into source code output by reading in the tape while still running the punch. Once the output tape was done, it could be run.

#Algol #Elliott503 #Elliott803 #Friden

How would people like it, if I were to use #Icon to convey #algorithms on Wikipedia?

Made up pseudocodes suck immensely, too, by the way.

Once upon a time, a person was expected to use #Algol 60 and to stick to standard as much as possible. In those days, you could understand.

#Pascal served similarly. And I suppose it is still in common use, but it has no real, standard way to write a unit distinct from a whole program.

I think that the #Go vs #Rust discussion only makes sense from a performance-oriented mindset. Some folks still wonder why Go was compared to #Python; this is why, and the lesson must be learned all over again.

Oh, also, all three languages descend from #ALGOL with heavy family resemblance, which shows that the discussion is also somewhat myopic.

Programming languages is manifestation of philosophy and way of thinking try to learn something outside of #algol languages
Try
- #lisp
- #forth
- #prolog
- #ocaml
- #smalltalk
- #erlang
- take #racket and discover language oriented programming. Build your own philosophy

Not a new article, but it's new to me :) A comparison of two fascinating languages that should have caught on

http://dylanfoundry.org/2015/01/02/the-algol-roots-of-dylan/

#dylanlang #algol

@alter_kaker Syntax reminds me a lot of #Algol in the dark ages.

@markjacobsen @wfaler @alexandru

#FORTRAN IV
#assembly
#lisp
#algol
#snobol
#pascal
#forth
#PL/m
#C
#cplusplus
#java
#javascript
#bash
#delphi
#sql

Was für Spezialisten: Kommende Nacht um 04:55 MEZ passiert der #Planetoid (115)Thyra den Stern #Algol im Perseus im Abstand von nur 33,48"nördlich. Die Helligkeit von Thyra beträgt mag 9,7.

Es ist die engste Konjunktion der beiden zwischen 1500 und 4000.
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Dear followers,

If you are easily offended then please block me, I won’t be outraged.

I regret as an oldie I might talk or post about:

#Linux
#PDP11s
#OpenVMS
#retrocomputing
#Mainframes
#Fortran
#Pascal
#Algol
#BASIC
#Python
#ITManagement
#IoT
#Microsoft

And very occasionally, odd scientific stuff (I am a big fan of it and modernity).

I might even comment on Musk, climate change, books, meteorology, ageism, health matters (it is a bone of contention at my age), COVID19, etc

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Halloween!

Algol programmers are the best witches, and big on open sourcery.

And I’ve on a few occasions programmed recursive COBOL. That’s pure magic.

#algol #norsktut #halloween

Should I take a look at #ALGOL ? For something other than historical interest ?

What do you think ?

#Emacs doesn't have a mode for #ALGOL? Not even a 3rd party mode?

Haven't looked around too much, I'll keep searching in the evening or I'll just make my own.

"What makes this so interesting is that the implementation language is "Georgia Tech Language" (?), which seems to be an Algol extended with Lisp primitives."
—http://elizagen.org/

The language even sports CAR/CDR forms such as CDADADR.

#eliza #lisp #algol #myothercarisacdr