From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 28.10.2025 19:00, Michael S wrote:   
   > On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:05:47 GMT   
   > scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:   
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   >> There is still one computer system that uses Algol as both   
   >> the system programming language, and for applications.   
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   >> Unisys Clearpath (descendents of the Burroughs B6500).   
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   > Is B6500 ALGOL related to A68?   
      
   I would have to look that up myself, but in older literature I've   
   seen the all-caps "ALGOL" mostly (only?) in context of Algol 60.   
      
   I also wouldn't expect that Burroughs is of any relevance nowadays.   
      
   IMO it anyway doesn't invalidate the fact that Algol 68 is a dead   
   language nowadays, certainly in its practical use, and otherwise   
   also mostly forgotten.   
      
   Janis   
      
   > My impression from Wikipedia article is that B5000 ALGOL was a   
   > proprietary off-spring of A60. Wikipedia says nothing about sources of   
   > B6500 ALGOL, but considering that Burroughs was an American enterprise   
   > and that back at time in US ALGOL 68 was widely considered as a failed   
   > European experiment I would guess that B6500 ALGOL is derived from   
   > B5000 ALGOL rather than from A68.   
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