OCCL Algol 68: Difference between revisions

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A full 32 bit Algol 68 compiler with some SNOBOL like pattern and string matching extensions. Introduced by Oxford and Cambridge Compilers Ltd. in 1995 and based on the Interactive ALGOL 68 compiler from Algol Applications Ltd., was sold until 2004 when the company went out of business.

The compiler was originally developed in the 1980s for Transputer based workstations or cards and this was taken advantage of in the OS/2 version by allowing the compiler to support offloading numerically intensive tasks to Transputer cards or farms and later to MEIKO massively parallel supercomputers.

Text editors

Lugaru Epsilon - Algol 68 syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent available as a separate download.

The Epsilon A68 mode is supposed to be generic Algol 68 but was originally developed for OCCL Algol 68.

Author

Peter Craven

Links

Algol 68 for OS/2 announcement
Flyer (archived)
Wikipedia:Interactive ALGOL 68
Sian Leitch: Programming Algol 68 Made Easy (PDF) - 2002 - First published by Oxford and Cambridge Compilers Ltd. in 1995.

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 A full 32 bit Algol 68 compiler with some [[SNOBOL]] like pattern and string matching extensions. Introduced by Oxford and Cambridge Compilers Ltd. in 1995 and based on the Interactive ALGOL 68 compiler from Algol Applications Ltd., was sold until 2004 when the company went out of business.
-The compiler was originally developed in the 1980's for Transputer based workstations or cards and this was taken advantage of in the OS/2 version by allowing the compiler to support offloading numerically intensive tasks to Transputer cards or farms and later to MEIKO massively parallel supercomputers.
+The compiler was originally developed in the 1980s for Transputer based workstations or cards and this was taken advantage of in the OS/2 version by allowing the compiler to support offloading numerically intensive tasks to Transputer cards or farms and later to MEIKO massively parallel supercomputers.
-===OS/2 text editors with OCCL Algol 68 support===
+;Text editors
-* [[Lugaru Epsilon]] - Algol 68 syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent available as a seperate download. - Commercial
+* [[Lugaru Epsilon]] - Algol 68 syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax-aware autoindent available as a separate download.
-: The Epsilon A68 mode is supposed to be generic Algol 68 but was originally developed for OCCL.
+: The Epsilon A68 mode is supposed to be generic Algol 68 but was originally developed for OCCL Algol 68.
 ==Author==
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 ==Links==
 * [http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/95-03-067 Algol 68 for OS/2 announcement]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_ALGOL_68 Wikipedia article on IA68]
+* [http://web.archive.org/web/19980209162553/http://www.occl-cam.demon.co.uk/flyer.html Flyer] (archived)
+* [[Wikipedia:Interactive ALGOL 68]]
 * Sian Leitch: [http://www.nunan.myzen.co.uk/algol68/pame.pdf Programming Algol 68 Made Easy] (PDF) - 2002 - First published by Oxford and Cambridge Compilers Ltd. in 1995.
 [[Category:Algol]]