Talk:ALGOL W

message: Can someone add a link or reference to where this any compiler for this language is still available or can be downloaded?  What are/were the target CPUs/Operating systems?
NevilleDNZ 21:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't a compiler; it was a programming language.--Prosfilaes 15:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of Source or Binary of any Algol-W compiler

message: Aw2c appears to be the only compiler for the Algol W language still in existence, so it seems appropriate to link to it. 
The edit that removed it stated "The link was a translator. A translator is not a compiler." "Translators" generally produce human-readable source code for programmers who intend to permanently port a program. If the only purpose of the output source code is to utilize a second compiler's object code generator, it is quite valid to use the word "compiler". Compilers that output assembly code or code for C-- or LLVM are examples. In any case, it doesn't seem right to simply remove the link. 
:Compilers use a syntatical parser, as well as a lexical analyzer and symbol table. Translator is a more generic term that covers compilers, but is less specific in meaning, since it also covers a broader set which includes simple text-to-text converters, assemblers, decompilers, and so on. — Loadmaster (talk) 21:36, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  aw2c 

message: I've changed all the occurrences of the name to "ALGOL", since the name is an acronym (for "ALGOrithmic Language") and therefore should be capitalized. Unless someone can demonstrate that certain dialects were explicitly spelled "Algol", I think we should capatialize all of the dialect names (ALGOL 60, ALGOL 68, ALGOL-W, ALGOL-X). Also notice that some of the names have dashes and some don't. It's confusing. — Loadmaster (talk) 21:30, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ALGOL or Algol? 

message: According to the article, the Wirth compiler for the IBM S/360 was widely distributed.
I have over the years searched for people who might still have one around, and not found one.
Seems to me if it really was widely distributed, it wouldn't be so hard do find. Gah4 (talk) 00:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Widely distributed 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I rencently discovered the Java software WPCleaner, which helps in fixing various Wikipedia articles that are broken in their markup. The ALGOL W page was tagged as 2.01 - "WP:WCW project (HTML text style element ) Tag: WPCleaner". After making the change by removing the  tag, it was later revered. Jimj wpg (talk) 19:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  WPCleaner recomended removing &lt;p> tag 

message: Tony Hoare is widely quoted as saying that his introduction of null references in ALGOL-W was the "billion-dollar mistake" that created years of headache in dozens of descendant languages. This seems like possibly the most notable historical fact about the language, yet there is no mention of it here. I'm curious whether other sources can decisively back up his claim that null references were invented for ALGOL-W. Forresthopkinsa (talk) 21:53, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's mentioned in . Guy Harris (talk) 02:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Null reference exceptions