Interview with Marcel van der Veer.

[Jose E. Marchesi]

>> 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.
>
> That article from Van der Meulen is very interesting.  In fact, at least
> two of the MHBs he suggests are in my TODO to implement as GNU
> extensions to the language: to make loop clauses to yield the counter,
> and the collateral clauses.
>
>> 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 ;-)
>
> :)  Thank you very much for your help.
>
> The feedback I got from the community during the GNU Tools Cauldron
> conference last weekend was very positive.  In fact, it was so positive
> that I am right now busy reworking the a68 branch into a new patch
> series for submission to gcc-patches ;)
>
> The talk I gave at the conference was quite fun and, I hope, managed to
> transmit to the audience that Algol 68 is not a toy language nor a
> historical curiosity.
>
> The talk slides are already uploaded to [2].
>
> The recording video of the talk, once available, will be linked in the
> same page.
>
> https://conf.gnu-tools-cauldron.org/opo25/talk/VMJQCK/

Sorry, that was meant to be:

[2] https://conf.gnu-tools-cauldron.org/opo25/talk/VMJQCK/

>
> Salud!