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Re: Algol Mainframes ?

Also See

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7953/first-language-with-c-like-memory-management

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5349354

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Memory_allocation#ALGOL_68

https://twitter.com/enf/status/1049453387492679682

https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/hi/heaps.pdf

It looks like the Algol standard never specified how to collect garbage, though.

A comment from an Algol mainframe programmer would definitely be useful in this discussion.

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