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snovymgodymyesterday at 4:30 PM1 replyview on HN

I'd love to be corrected, but my intuition tells me probably not.

The only pragmatic use for a modern Algol 68 compiler I can think of would be to port a legacy codebase to a modern system, but any existing Algol 68 codebase will likely see greater porting challenges arising out of the operating system change than from the programming language.


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gnufxyesterday at 11:35 PM

Some of those codebases might be (interesting) operating systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68#Operating_systems_wri...