Interview with Marcel van der Veer.

[Paul Leyland]

Thank you for posting this interview. Especially valuable, IMO, is the 
inclusion to https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872738.807137 which I 
had never seen before, am now reading, and have already bookmarked for 
future re-reading.

FWIW, I fell in love with A68 in 1976 or so while a student in Oxford 
and used it during my DPhil research in molecular spectroscopy. Algol 68 
is still by far my favourite programming language and I write production 
code for interpretation by Genie. Marcel mentions people who have 
contributed suggestions and bug reports. At least one of the former has 
been implemented and at least one of the latter corrected. There may 
well be others but memory is fading with time.

Although I am incompetent at compiler construction if there is any other 
way in which I can assist in making Algol 68 a fully fledged member of 
the gcc family please let me know. If nothing else, I could become a 
cheerleader though I absolutely refuse to dress in skimpy clothing and 
wave pom-poms about  before a public audience. Somehow, I don't think it 
would have a positive effect given my age, sex and general appearance ;-)

Paul