Subj : An Algol 68 front end for GCC
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From : LWN.net
Date : Wed Jan 01 2025 16:45:05

An Algol 68 front end for GCC

Date:
Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:36:55 +0000

Description:
While some people are focused on new and trendy languages, Jos Marchesi
has, instead, gifted the world with a GCC front
end for the Algol 68 language . This WIP is a GCC front-end for Algol 68, the 
fascinating,
	generally poorly understood and often vilified programming
	language.  It is common knowledge that Algol 68 was well ahead of
	its time back when it was introduced, and anyone who knows the
	language well will suspect this probably still holds true today,
	but more than fifty years after the publication of the Revised
	Report the world may finally be ready for it, or perhaps not, we
	shall see. For those who see Algol 68 as too new, there was also a
COBOL front end posted in December.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1003916/


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