[GTALUG] ancient computer history

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I read this with fascination in 1967 or perhaps early 1968.  It was almost 
current then!  Looking at it now, I still remember some of the phrases.

<https://www.computer.org/web/csdl/index/-/csdl/proceedings/afips/1964/5064/00/50640001.pdf>

(I was in high school then and it was extremely difficult to get 
information about computers then.  The internet is such a great facility! 
I used to sneak into U of T, Waterloo, and York to get accesss to 
computers.)

It's fun to read of Algol's support for recursion and dynamic memory 
allocation of local variables:

	it is fair to say that they are difficult, and their inclusion in 
	an Algebraic lanuage that is intended to be universal is 
	controversial.

How far have we come!

(How did I end up on this page?  I posted a link to the Algol 60 report to 
the list.  The report is dedicated to the memory of William Turanski who 
was killed before the conference.  I've always wondered who he was.  It 
turns out that he worked with Anatol Holt on an early programming system 
for the US military.  He also was a Putnam Fellow (undergrad math 
contest).  Turanski is mentioned in Rosen's paper.)