Posted by robost86 on 06:50:00 11-28-2001
There are alot of dead computer languages out there. One example is Algol, I haven't seen one single Algol compiler for PC, just an Algol-to-C converter.
I just thought it would be cool writing compilers for some old, odd and funny languages If I feel like I don't have anything better to do, I'll do that some day.
It was a long time since I posted here Felt like I hat to post _something_
Posted by Peter on 08:40:00 11-29-2001
have you got any tutorials or other material about Algol or the like?
Posted by KaGez on 13:23:00 11-29-2001
what is e.g. Algol able to do, and how difficult is it? maybe give us any information about it and we could think about it better =)
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Posted by robost86 on 18:55:00 01-08-2002
Algol was used for computation in the 50s and early 60s, when computer languages was something new It's like...an undeveloped variant of Fortran (and still fortran is known to be old an useless).
Posted by fsvara on 20:32:00 01-08-2002
I know fortran as "old an powerful" actually... it's supposed to be a mathematic language (hence, FORmula TRANslator) not smething you write an OS with... somewhat like Mathematica...
Posted by Peter on 20:37:00 01-08-2002
Can somebody point me to some good text about COBOL and/or FORTRAN? I've heard quite a lot about them but never got to know anything really.
Posted by robost86 on 21:01:00 01-08-2002
svara: "powerful"... Fortran isn't that powerful, not even for calculations, I think.
Posted by KaGez on 08:36:00 01-09-2002
maybe researching on that will make things a bit clearer maybe a good start to look is code.box.sk .... dunno if they got something 'bout it, but they got quite much about programming there
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Posted by robost86 on 13:30:00 01-09-2002
We should do a little research about programming languages
Would be fun to collect info about all programming languages known, especially old ones.
Anyone who have too much free time?
Posted by KaGez on 13:44:00 01-09-2002
I don't have much free time atm (school sux), but I'd be very interested in some informations abour "dead" or old progging languages. Would be kind of interesting to see how stuff developed in the years
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Posted by HeavyJ on 05:47:00 02-18-2002
A very dead program language is B I think.
Posted by KaGez on 12:45:00 02-18-2002
I've heard of that before, but I never read much about it... but atm I'm interested in learning asm first
it's not dead, but it sounds a little interesting to me
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Posted by fsvara on 13:20:00 02-18-2002
i found quite a nice site about programming languages.. features a huge list of langauges, and a genealogic tree of programming languages.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/lang/
edit: yeah, i forgot the link
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Posted by sacah on 13:38:00 02-18-2002
and the lucky URL Is.....
i not sure if u just forgot to post in last msg??
Posted by Flikm on 11:19:00 05-13-2002
fortran was probably powerful way back yonder.
Posted by MooKeen on 09:41:00 05-16-2002
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." --Edsger W. Dijkstra
That about sums it up for COBOL, although, it may still be used today by truely evil people. I guess you could say that Algol still lives, though. It lives in C, and various other languages that I am too lazy to look up. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, the long, hard journey from Algol to C++ was something like: Algol ---> CPL ---> BCPL ---> B ---> C ---> C++. And for object oriented-ness, you can thank Simula and Smalltalk, not that I am thankful for C++ and it's object-orientation.
-Moo
Lazy me
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