History

• Why ALGOL was an important programming language?
  • r/programming

GCC

• GCC Wiki / Algol68FrontEnd

News

• Phoronix / GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language 1 January 2025
  • Hacker News
• Хабр / Вышел GCC Front End для языка программирования Algol 68 2 янв 2025
• The Register / The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68 Tue 7 Jan 2025
• Phoronix / ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point 9 March 2025
• The Register / GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL out Thu 13 Mar 2025

Versus

• Hacker News / Personally I appreciate the terseness of C and its closeness to assembly a lot, and I believe it all reflects the good taste of Ritchie, but still he didn't do anything "impossible" from my perspective. 🔗