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.