Post Azp2fhkMRQp5SJc5i4 by phloggen@expressional.social
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 (DIR) Post #Azp2fhkMRQp5SJc5i4 by phloggen@expressional.social
       2025-11-01T21:44:22Z
       
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       If your are interested in the history of programming languages, we have a treat for you in Datamuseum.dk:Peter Naur's son, Thorkil, has scanned almost hundred original documents and correspondence from the creation of the ALGOL60 language:https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:Keyword/PERSONS/PETER_NAURIf you read Danish, Thorkil lays it all out here:https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Peter_Naur_Algol_60_DocumentsMy personal favorite document is this telegram:https://datamuseum.dk/bits/30009303(For young people who wonder what's going on:That's basically an "email" from 1960.  You know what the best part was ?  No spam!  Because the sender paid actual money.)
       
 (DIR) Post #Azp2fimsZYQogPncH2 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-11-02T03:21:06Z
       
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       @phloggen I love the cultural moment around early algol. It's so free and optimistic, open, anything was possible. Passing entire unevaluated expressions as function arguments, to be eval'd only when needed, still amazes me. I've got a lot of early algol books and pins from the 50s and 60s, they're just lovely.So many fundamental metaphors were defined then. The "railyard" algorithm for decomposing algebraic to rpn notation is beautiful. It defined the C language structure; it's past a one to one copy (I'm sure you know but many don't). And soon, gcc will support algol inherently. Lol
       
 (DIR) Post #Azp2jg0qpYBNEhDjZA by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-11-02T03:21:51Z
       
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       @phloggen Alas I barely read engrish my foist language.