The programming language ALGOL 68 has received updates.
Just before the New Year, the ALGOL 68 language received patches. The author is an engineer from Oracle. The additions concern the interface. These are unfinished fragments. The language is being modernized by the Oracle engineer, as reported by https://xrust.ru/. His patches relate to the interface of the ALGOL 68 programming language for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). These are incomplete fixes for a niche programming language that is already half a century old. Last month, new fixes for the COBOL interface patches for GCC were released. Many criticized them for being outdated and irrelevant. Well, the interface patches for ALGOL 68 are even more unexpected. ALGOL 68 is positioned by experts as an imperative programming language. It emerged in 1968. Notably, it was a specialized language with a limited scope of application. In the early 2000s, a GPL-based ALGOL 68 compiler (a68g) and experimental patches for GCC were published. Everyone thought that was the end of it. And now, unexpectedly, these patches have appeared.
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