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Roland6 Silver badge

Re: Algol 68 is not ALGOL 60

>I remember attempting a C compiler ... Did enough to pass the course but never finished it. It was hard!

Don't be to hard on yourself, there was a valid (technical) reason why Borland didn't release Turbo-C :)

BTW it took a full-time team of 3 a year or so to produce a halfway decent C compiler and code generator that was marketable.

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