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From: cmt@myrias.UUCP (Chris Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Algol-68 down for the count (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?)
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Date: 27 Nov 88 08:05:50 GMT
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In article <5495@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> keith@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
>Add     University of Liverpool, Dept. CS, Dept. SCM
>          Algol68 R (ICL 1906S) - now defunct as of 1984
>          Algol68 S (Modular One) -  '' ditto ''
>          Algol68 RS (VAX/VMS) - defunct as of 1988 -
>                                 moved to Irvine ADA on HP 850 and 300 series.
>          FLACC Algol68 (VM/CMS) still in use as a teaching language until
>                                 next year.

Wow!  FLACC outlived all those.  If you'd predicted that when Colin and I were
writing it, I'd have laughed.

You know, we only ever got 22 copies installed, and less than 5 of those
in North America.  Even though it ran on 370's under MVS, CMS and MTS, and
was cheap and reliable.  Talk about a marketing disaster.
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